After looking at the NCAA rankings, I am convinced they really need to come up with a different formula for how teams are ranked and teams that play top 25 talent night in and night out.
I saw Duke now has dropped to 24 after the Miami loss, and are 15-5.
I see Wichita State now is 22 and jumped basically 6 spots playing absolute stiffs. I watched their blow out of Loyola of Chicago and that team couldn't beat most 5A high schools, just a joke to be a division one door mat.
I look at the ACC teams like ND, Clemson and others that aren't ranked by having just as good of a record and the reason they aren't ranked because they are beating each other up in a DEEP ACC conference.
So my rub is the fact that a conference with that level of competition has teams that will not get ranked, while they play a harder scheduled night in and night out, while the Wichita States of weak conferences that have just them and Northern Iowa one year and then them and Indiana State the next year, but NEVER more than one other top 50 team in their conference. It's pretty sickening to watch that Team Climb back toward the top 10 and BRAG about how good they are when they are playing the ENTIRE schedule in conference of teams ranking from 110-290 and just themselves.
Again, I wish the NCAA ranking committee could come up with a weighed ranking like diving or something....for an example, if you only go out and do one flip, it is weighed a lower scale regardless if you land a 10, compared if you do a triple summersault and land a 10.
Wichita State and several others in ALL Weak Conferences are basically doing one flip, landing 9 and 10s every week, while ACC teams are having to do triple summersault, and half pikes and coming up some weeks with 6's and are not getting credit in the rankings to what they are playing against night in and not out.
I just don't see how the committee can continue to give BIG leaps in the polls to teams essentially playing night in and night out DIV III, DIV II, or high school level competition. I think if you play a team in the top 25 you beat them you are awarded ex amount of points. If you beat a team in the top 10 more points, if you beat a team in the top100 range maybe very few should be awarded. 200 and beyond 1/2 a point.
Duke (who I'm not a fan; Diehard UVA fan) who loses to Miami that has been ranked drops 4 spots and has a over all record of 15-5, while Wichita State beats a complete stiff not even ranked in the top 150 and has not played ONE top 25 team ALL YEAR. Wichita State has a current record of 14-5 and jumps from #28 to #22. That's just ridiculous. The most ridiculous thing is with around 10 games in conference remaining, Duke, UVA, NC, Louisville will have to play at least 4 more games against top 25 before ACC round robin play. Wichita State and teams like them have 11 games left and will play NO ONE ABOVE 77, and 9 of those teams below 150 to 290 ranking. They will probably not see a top 25 team until the sweet sixteen if they get that far! Time to change the ranking formula to force teams that have admitted, like Wichita State they are playing in a joke of a conference, but refuses to leave because it will guarantee a year in and year out top 25 ranking for their team and coach! The school has been encouraged to move to one of the more competitive conferences and they have declined the last several years. Could you image a team that played NOT ONE top 25 ALL year, has 2 or 3 losses to 150 and below level competition and the committee could rank them up next to North Carolina or Oklahoma. The ranking point system needs to change!
