Buzzketball stays put at 13 in AP Poll

By: Tyler Fanning on December 17, 2018, 12:56 PM | 24 comments

https://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll

Hokies gain 5 votes and stay put at 13th

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NickVT10's picture NickVT10 | 7 years 6 months #

UNC solidly beat Gonzaga and still ranked behind them?

We won't move much until conference play and we can get better competition.

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HomebrewHokie08's picture HomebrewHokie08
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| 7 years 6 months # ^

I get it was in Carolina, but still, that was a whooping

Plan for the worst and hope for the best, not the other way around.

VThokies904's picture VThokies904 | 7 years 6 months # ^

didn't UT beat the zags too?

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NickVT10's picture NickVT10 | 7 years 6 months # ^

Correct

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby

mogwaiaredangerous's picture mogwaiaredangerous | 7 years 6 months # ^

Zags also beat Duke while we've played a pretty pathetic schedule. If Buzz wanted us to move up the rankings in December, we should have scheduled more than 2 or 3 competitive non-conference games.

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| 7 years 6 months # ^

Protip: It's not about the rankings in December. It's about March/April.

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hokie4life's picture hokie4life | 7 years 6 months # ^

Loluva tip: it's not about rankings in March/April it's about winning games.

HT 15 Hokie's picture HT 15 Hokie | 7 years 6 months # ^

Fixed it:

Loluva tip: it's not about rankings in March/April it's about winning games not losing to a 16 seed in hilariously historic fashion.

HGoldman's picture HGoldman | 7 years 6 months # ^

Go UMBC Retrievers!

Alum07's picture Alum07
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| 7 years 6 months # ^

I know Duke already is doing the same, but we should find a way to have key members of the UMBC team be honorary invitees to the UVa-VT game in Cassell this year.

(No, really... Duke put out a special invite to K.J. Maura to watch the Duke-Virginia game in Cameron)

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07Hokie's picture 07Hokie
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| 7 years 6 months #

Movement up will start once the conference schedule begins.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Jander75's picture Jander75 | 7 years 6 months # ^

Or down, looking dangerous on the ACC play this year...

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07Hokie's picture 07Hokie
STATS AND DOG SPORTS
| 7 years 6 months # ^

Danger is our middle name

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

OHokie's picture OHokie | 7 years 6 months # ^

"Virginia Danger Tech"? Yeah, that's gotta hurt recruiting.

/s

Deuce Deuce '07's picture Deuce Deuce '07
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| 7 years 6 months # ^

I believe it's University of Virginia Danger Tech...

senjohnblutarsky's picture senjohnblutarsky | 7 years 6 months # ^

Quality Loses...

VThokies904's picture VThokies904 | 7 years 6 months #

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novaengineer2015's picture novaengineer2015 | 7 years 6 months #

Texas Plays duke in a weekday, so there's room to move up at least one spot before conference play.

SevenLayersofPlayers's picture SevenLayersofPlayers
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| 7 years 6 months #

According to KenPom (created by a VT grad btw), we're 11th with the 6th best offense in the country. (Link Here).

hokiesamsquanch's picture hokiesamsquanch | 7 years 6 months # ^

I never knew Ken Pomeroy was a Hokie, according to Wikipedia he lived in Vawter no less. That is pretty damn cool. Thanks for sharing

HokieAlum6144's picture HokieAlum6144
| 7 years 6 months #

If we keep winning the rankings will take care of themselves.

HGoldman's picture HGoldman | 7 years 6 months # ^

How we handle the ACC portion of our schedule will be real test.

dmcross's picture dmcross
| 7 years 6 months #

We all know how good NAW has been this season, but I just looked, and in the last 4 games (that is since the Penn St loss) he has shot 27/43 overall and 9/15 from distance. That is 63% and 60%, respectively. In those games he also has a total of 14 assists and 8 steals. In the 4 games since Duke's loss to Gonzaga, Zion has shot 33/49 (67%) overall and 0/6 from distance. He has racked up 11 assists and 12 steals in those games. Those stats right there are why people are really starting to talk about NAW. He has been that good. Crazy that we have this kind of talent in a VT uniform.

TheHokieCoder's picture TheHokieCoder
| 7 years 6 months # ^

Reading what you say about NAW gave me pause, thinking you are giving a little bit too much credit to NAW to be comparing him to Zion based on a feeling that Duke was playing much higher quality opponents. So I went to the box scores for minutes played and to the current NET rankings.

Zion is averaging 25.3 min/game in the last 4 [Indiana (20), Stetson (341), Hartford (225), and Yale (93)] against an average opponent ranking of 169.8.

NAW is averaging 26 min/game in the last 4 [CCSU (201), VMI (330), SC St. (350), and Washington (57)] against an average opponent ranking of 234.5.

End result for me? Pleasantly surprised about the stats being competitive/similar, but I would still be betting hard that, given 2 identical teams of 4, Zion's team would beat NAW's team more often than not. But still, great point that it is crazy (and exciting) that we've got NAW on our team!