Michigan #5 in AP Poll

MSU? FURMAN!!!

Of course, MSU in a smelly sort of way, and Furman in an awesome sort of way.

Michigan gets my first place vote. What team do we not beat right now?

That’s good... Right where we want them when we pound them twice. 

Keep giving Izzo top seeds in the tourney and watch him crumble.

It is definitely too high, but will be nice for our tournament résumé when we have at least one win against another top-ten team.

Bruce Pearl and Auburn pay players .

The other e$$ eee $ee schools hired away Kentucky bagmen. 

They probably didn't, the SEC has become elite at getting overvalued in general by voters though

And who is saying they are any good??? Here's the deal. There are  plenty of SEC and BG12 schools that get these flashy ratings...because they have these wonderful athletes who can run and jump out of the gym...and dunk like crazy...some can even shoot well...they have crazy one-on-one skills. They beat up on a crappy early season schedule and look like world beaters. Then they play their in-conference schedule and mostly hold their own...and are continued to be viewed as dangerous. Then they get a decent seed into the big dance and open against the 13 seed-Southwest Northeastern University who makes them play a half-court game and they get knocked out in the first round-by 23 points. And everyone is shocked!!!!!!! Other than Kentucky and Kansas the rest of the schools in these two conferences are all show-they have great athletes whose combined basketball IQ  is below ZERO---they don't know how to play the game!!! 

Especially since I’ve heard this from a few members of the media. 

However, Gonzaga has earned the #1 spot and Duke, imo, has the most talent. 

Kansas though? Meh.

And UVA, is borderline top 10. 

Ann Arbor versus the World

UM has 1 vote for #1 in Coaches looks like. 

MSU specializes in early-season quality losses.

Kansas had tradition. Only Jayhawk fans understand. /s

That's what happens when you start the season 8-0 and beat two teams from last year's Final Four.

The Furmies are 8-0. 

Furman is undefeated, with wins at two of last year's Final Four teams.  They're not the 25th best team in the country -- three of their wins are in overtime, including one in 2OT against KenPom #314 Western Carolina -- but it's not a completely ridiculous ranking.

I’m definitely a fur man...oh you’re talking about the school.

If we are near the top, we won't knock them down much by beating them. We will need to annihilate them to move their needle.

Exactly, the poll inertia is strong with UVA. There's no reason they should be ahead of us based on resume

This basically proves that the people voting don't look at the scores of the games, just the W/L column.  

MSU getting 2 decades

And how that wasn't all erased when they became the first #1 seed to lose to a #16 seed, I'll never know. 

Never mind that they were the #1 overall seed, and especially never mind that it wasn't a fluke loss. They got their asses kicked up and down the court.