UM finishes the season ranked #25
Final coaches poll for 2022. One of 5 B1G ranked in top 25.
My vote has us in the top 16 (since, Sweet 16), but I get it.
....actually I do not. If we ended up in the Sweet 16, should we not be amongst the top 16? What if we had beaten 'Nova and made the Elite 8, would we still be ranked at 25 or would we be in the top 8?
Probably more to the point, in my mind anyway, if Michigan would have won it all would they still be ranked somewhere other than #1 in the final coaches poll? That wouldn't make sense.
1-4 are the final four. Why the logic changes further down doesn't seem consistent.
So......you think that St Peters should be in the Top 8?
Why not? Ask Kentucky or Purdue how good they were.
yes polls go by week to week and those few weeks they were top 8
NC could be 15-33 and still ranked #1 after winning title
So a 1 seed like Baylor who lost in the 2nd round should be ranked below an 11 seed like Michigan simply because Michigan won one more game in the tournament?
I’m sorry, but the regular season should still hold some weight in these rankings. Michigan beat an unranked team and a top 10 team and then lost to another top 10 team. That’s not enough to go from unranked to top 16.
Even if you’re of the mind that the tournament wins mean more, who you beat should matter and shouldn’t completely eliminate the results of the regular season.
The ranking is a holistic view of the season, not just two weekends at the end.
Unfortunately, the ranking of UNC flies in the face of that logic. #8 seed UNC moved up 26 spots to #2 in the polls which I cannot argue as they beat a lot of good teams in the tourney (#1 seed and #2 seed and nearly another #1 seed).
Unfortunately, the criteria for a lot of these polls, awards, etc. are often not very well laid out. There's a case to be made that we were better than a good handful of the teams ahead of us, but jeebus. . . when you win one, lose one for weeks on end. . . hard to blame people for thinking we were a head-scratcher.
Where is Michigan State?
Laying in the weeds
Half a second glance had me reading them at #22, but then realizing that was Murry State, just all smiles.
North until you smell it and west until you step in it.
This disrespekt cannot just be tolerated it must be celebrated.
Half of it is still passed out in the red cedar, the rest is trying to hide their car from the sparty statue crash.
we beat the #10, 15 and 21 teams, and are ranked behind st. pete's and murray state? most of our losses are to tourney teams, including 2 of the final four with UNC being our only 'bad' loss in terms of point spread. seems like we earned a few more bumps up than landing at # 25
any other top 25 teams with 14 or 15 losses?
IDK...but schedule has to play a role too.
In an opinion based ranking with no defined criteria?
I really don't understand why the final rankings closely reflect tournament performance. Teams lose games all the time and it doesn't impact rankings that much. Additionally, the best team does not always win in a single elimination tournament. The rankings should reflect the total body of work.
Then again, end of the season rankings are totally pointless so who cares.
Not a bad finish, honestly.
God the big 10 blows in the tournament other than us. The big should not get the benefit of the doubt.
Meaningless.
Another couch biting the dust in EL
Logic tells me that Michigan should have been ranked in the Top 16. They made the sweet 16 in the tourney then lost to a team that made the Final 4 and they lost mainly due to an injury from one of their star players.
Only Michigan and Purdue made the Sweet 16 and Purdue lost to a 15 seed. One could argue that Michigan should be ranked ahead of Purdue because of that. The debate will rage on for a while.
At this point it's on to next year, and football