Howland's Bruins 4th in ESPN/USA Today Poll - Duke just behind

Top 5:
North Carolina
Connecticut
Louisville
UCLA
Duke

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Duke is the asu of basketball

always overranked in the preseason.

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Oct 30, 2008 9:52 AM PDT reply actions

This poll means bupkes as far as I can tell. The poll at the beginning of January or February or March is much more important. And there is that little tournament at the end of the year that makes the entire poll business meaningless.

by Fox 71 on Oct 30, 2008 10:10 AM PDT reply actions

Bah-humbug

Come on, Foxey. It’s kind of fun seeing the media show us this kind of respect pre-season, IMO. Lord knows we don’t get it in football, yet. And it sure beats the pre-Howland years when we’d be ranked 20th or so pre-season and know that we’d be lucky to make the Sweet-16.

by bornagainbruin on Oct 30, 2008 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Well, if we had been ranked No. 1, then it might be different.

by Fox 71 on Oct 30, 2008 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions

Some benefit to it

After all, at the end of the season, we need some reference point to determine by how much Duke underachieved in the Tourney. The #5 ranking = a high probability of Epic Fail! for coach K.

by bruinhoo on Oct 30, 2008 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions

Coach K

I was gonna put on a rat head for Halloween and go as Mike Shanahan but everyone thought I was Coach K instead.

greg in denver

by gbruin on Oct 30, 2008 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions

What Fox said!

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on Oct 30, 2008 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions

And So It Begins...

Polls, schmolls. They had North Carolina at the top last year, too.

Bring on our team. C’mon DC, bring them on.

I CANNOT WAIT!!!!

Love My Bruins

by Bruingirl83 on Oct 30, 2008 11:28 AM PDT reply actions

Good sign

to see three teams that we should play all ranked in the pre-seaon top 10 with Duke right below us (overrated) with Texas and Notre Dame at 8 and 9 respectively. Now lets just get DePaul to sneak into the top 25 at some point during the season and we’ll once again have one of the top OOC schedules around.

by turs12 on Oct 30, 2008 2:22 PM PDT reply actions