joewillie78 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:49 pm
QuakerSouth wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:25 pm
Well, Princeton lost to #11 and they're moving up 1? Just think if they lose next week, they'll be ranked 1st. Princeton might have been # 3 last week, but they didn't play that way this week, that's fo sho. They should be moving dooowwwnnnn. Not many, but maybe 2 or 3 spots, with 2 or 3 spots between them and the team that just beat them, Yale.
Aren't rankings supposed to be about where you are right now?
I had them 3 last week behind Cornell at #2, but I Put Virginia at #2, after your Quakers beat us and moved you guys to #4, and kept Princeton at 3 since they did beat Penn.
Look, ranking the top4 and possibly 5 Ivies is brutal. They are all so close and so damned good.
GOBIGRED
Joewillie78
Broadway,
You are right, it is tough, particularly at this time of the year. It seems like if a team is ranked so high (2,3, whatever), and they lose to a team ranked considerably lower (11), they shouldn't move up. A team should never/rarely move up if they lose to a lower ranked team. Rankings are snapshots in time, and if a team loses, by definition, they are a different team than they were before they lost. Somebody just beat them, and proved they were better that day, during that snapshot in time.
Rankings right now are a circle-jerk anyway.
But it will sort itself out as the season unfolds, especially in the Ivy....everybody can't win! I am glad we are done with the Red, for now at least. They are always scary, with great tradition there.
