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AP Poll: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/rankings/ap
Coaches Poll: http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/ba ... ll/2014/1/

ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
1. Kentucky
2. Arizona
3. Wisconsin
4. Duke
5. Kansas
6. North Carolina
7. Florida
8. Louisville
9. Virginia
10. Texas
11. Wichita State
12. Villanova
13. Gonzaga
14. Iowa State
15. Virginia Commonwealth
16. San Diego State
17. Connecticut
18. Michigan State
19. Oklahoma
20. Ohio State
21. Nebraska
22. Southern Methodist
23. Syracuse
24. Michigan
25. Harvard
25. Utah

Others Receiving Votes: Stanford (0-0) 71; Iowa (0-0) 58; Colorado (0-0) 57; UCLA (0-0) 35; Minnesota (0-0) 34; Kansas State (0-0) 27; Arkansas (0-0) 21; Pittsburgh (0-0) 20; Memphis (0-0) 15; North Carolina State (0-0) 14; Louisiana Tech (0-0) 9; Cincinnati (0-0) 8; LSU (0-0) 8; George Washington (0-0) 7; Dayton (0-0) 6; Notre Dame (0-0) 6; Oklahoma State (0-0) 6; Florida State (0-0) 5; Georgetown (0-0) 5; Illinois (0-0) 3; Maryland (0-0) 3; Brigham Young (0-0) 2; UNLV (0-0) 2; Baylor (0-0) 1; Stephen F. Austin (0-0) 1; Texas-El Paso (0-0) 1; West Virginia (0-0) 1

Bolded are WSU and WSU's scheduled or potential (Diamondhead Classic) opponents this year. Utah and Memphis are the scheduled opponents. Nebraska, Colorado and George Washington are in Hawaii with WSU, and facing 2 of those 3 teams looks likely, if WSU can take care of business in the first game.

I haven't kept up with everyone's schedules, so if anyone is playing the teams in the poll, please list. We can just keep this thread running as the location for national polls and discussion throughout the year.

Birds play vcu and possibly Lsu depending on tournament outcomes

For the Las Vegas Invitational, the Sycamores will play Illinois then either Memphis or Baylor.

Braves play Memphis on Dec 6 and Kansas State on Dec 9. K-State is 28 and Memphis is 31 in the Coaches Poll.

The big question going into those games is whether projected starting PG Sutherland (fractured ring finger) is back, and whether he gets cleared early enough to get up to speed. The doctors give him a chance to make the Thanksgiving trip to Corpus Christi to face TCU and either Mississippi State or SLU.

UNI has Virginia Commonwealth and Iowa, also Stephen F Austin who got 1 vote

Not much for ranked or receiving votes, but still a solid schedule.

Going to be really interesting to see how WSU is covered by the media this year with that ranking. All evidence I've seen so far is that the Kentucky game completely changed the narrative we had to suffer through last season.

Where's Illinois State?

I guess Dan Muller didn't get to vote in this poll?

rlh04d wrote:Going to be really interesting to see how WSU is covered by the media this year with that ranking. All evidence I've seen so far is that the Kentucky game completely changed the narrative we had to suffer through last season.

Just goes to show, losing is the only way you can get any respect.

Cdizzle wrote:

rlh04d wrote:Going to be really interesting to see how WSU is covered by the media this year with that ranking. All evidence I've seen so far is that the Kentucky game completely changed the narrative we had to suffer through last season.

Just goes to show, losing is the only way you can get any respect.

Which is hilarious considering that was the joke all year on ShockerNet. Watching team after team after team get credit for their "quality losses."

It was actually true. We got more respect for losing to Kentucky than we likely would have got for blowing them out. We blow them out and people just argue that they were overrated all year and it wasn't impressive ... we lose in epic fashion, and they nearly win a championship without Cauley-Stein, and it's a whole different narrative.

... I'd rather have another Final Four and still have people question us, though.