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AP: #7 (up from #8)
Coaches: #6 (up from #8)
Blogpoll: #6 (up from #8)
Sagarin: #7 (down from #6)
Kenpom: #11 (up from #12)
RPI: #6 (down from #4; I think playing IU hurt us here)
Bracketology: #2 seed (steady from last week)
Crashing the Dance: #2 seed (steady from last week)

The Sports Mitten lays out a scenario in which MSU [...]

Rankings Update

AP: #8 (up from #9)
Coaches: #8 (up from #9)
Blogpoll: #8 (up from #9)
Sagarin: #6 (up from #7)
Kenpom: #12 (steady from last week)
RPI: #4 (up from #5)
Bracketology: #2 seed (up from #3 seed)
Crashing the Dance: #2 seed (steady from last week)

Question (that I do not know the answer to): Could we be placed in the [...]

AP: #9 (down from #6)
Coaches: #9 (down from #5)
Blogpoll: #9 (down from #6)
Sagarin: #7 (steady from last week)
Kenpom: #12 (down from #9)
RPI: #5 (up from #6)
Bracketology: #3 seed (down from #2 seed)
Crashing the Dance: #2 seed (steady from last week)

Perhaps the buzz of yesterday’s thrilling victory biased my vote in the blogpoll this week, as [...]

I’m back–like a bad rash.
Rankings Update

AP: #6 (up from #9)
Coaches: #5 (up from #9)
Blogpoll: #6 (up from #11)
Sagarin: #7 (up from #8)
Kenpom: #9 (up from #11)
RPI: #6 (up from #7)
Bracketology: #2 seed (steady from last week)
Crashing the Dance: #2 seed (steady from last week)

Crashing the Dance has us as the highest of the #2 seeds.  [...]

Rankings Update

AP: #9 (up from #13)
Coaches: #9 (up from #14)
Blogpoll: #11 (no awards for yours truly)
Sagarin: #8 (up from #11)
Kenpom: #11 (up from #21)
RPI: #7 (down from #5)
Bracketology: #2 seed (up from #3 seed)
Crashing the Dance: #2 seed (up from #3 seed)

The back-to-back blowout wins did wonder for our KenPom ranking.  A #2 seed is [...]

Rankings Update

AP: #13 (down from #9)
Coaches: #14 (down from #9)
Sagarin: #11 (down from #8)
Kenpom: #21 (steady from last week)
RPI: #5 (steady from last week)
Bracketology: #3 seed (down from #3 seed)
Crashing the Dance: #3 seed

Purdue is ranked one spot ahead of us in both the human polls, reflecting that we’re now basically back to being dead [...]

Rankings Update

AP: #9 (down from #7)
Coaches: #9 (down from #7)
Sagarin: #8 (steady from last week)
Kenpom: #21 (down from #18)
RPI: #5 (down from#3)
Bracketology: #2 seed (steady from last week)

That loss to Northwestern didn’t hurt too much in any of the rankings.  In the human polls, four teams (Syracuse, Clemson, Georgetown, UCLA) that were just behind MSU [...]