Tennessee moved up slightly in both polls despite not playing last week. They moved from 16 to 14 in AP, jumping among others Gonzaga - a team they will host Jan. 7 - which dropped from No. 7 to No. 18.
The Vols moved up from 21 to 18 in the USA Today/ESPN poll
AP TOP 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 28, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
Record Pts Pvs
1. North Carolina (72) 12-0 1,800 1
2. Connecticut 11-0 1,719 2
3. Pittsburgh 12-0 1,641 3
4. Oklahoma 12-0 1,600 4
5. Duke 10-1 1,511 5
6. Wake Forest 11-0 1,351 6
7. Notre Dame 9-2 1,231 8
8. Texas 10-2 1,193 9
9. Purdue 11-2 1,160 10
10. Michigan St. 9-2 1,058 11
11. Georgetown 9-1 1,015 12
12. UCLA 10-2 991 13
13. Syracuse 12-1 863 17
14. Tennessee 8-2 854 16
15. Villanova 11-1 691 18
16. Gonzaga 8-3 608 7
17. Arizona St. 10-1 602 20
18. Louisville 8-2 588 19
19. Baylor 10-1 580 21
20. Clemson 12-0 563 22
21. Minnesota 12-0 351 23
22. Xavier 9-2 327 14
23. Michigan 9-2 237 24
24. Ohio St. 9-1 219 15
25. Butler 10-1 166 —
Others receiving votes: West Virginia 100, Marquette 79, Illinois 64, Davidson 50, Memphis 43, Saint Mary’s, Calif. 30, Texas A&M 21, Stanford 17, BYU 13, Florida 12, Maryland 12, Dayton 11, Florida St. 10, Arizona 7, Miami 6, Creighton 2, Illinois St. 2, George Mason 1, Missouri 1.
USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 Poll
The top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 28, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
Record Pts Pvs
1. North Carolina (31) 12-0 775 1
2. Connecticut 11-0 737 2
3. Pittsburgh 12-0 715 3
4. Oklahoma 12-0 683 4
5. Duke 10-1 651 5
6. Wake Forest 11-0 598 6
7. Texas 10-2 531 8
8. Georgetown 9-1 510 9
9. UCLA 10-2 496 10
10. Notre Dame 9-2 453 11
11. Purdue 11-2 398 15
11. Syracuse 12-1 398 14
13. Villanova 11-1 351 16
14. Arizona State 10-1 346 17
15. Michigan State 9-2 308 18
16. Clemson 12-0 293 20
17. Gonzaga 8-3 285 7
18. Louisville 8-2 223 19
18. Tennessee 8-2 223 21
20. Baylor 10-1 194 22
21. Minnesota 12-0 181 23
22. Xavier 9-2 169 12
23. Ohio State 9-1 158 13
24. Michigan 9-2 66 -
25. Marquette 11-2 55 25
Others receiving votes: Brigham Young 43 West Virginia 41 Butler 37 Memphis 33 Dayton 32 Saint Mary’s 26 Davidson 12 Arizona 10 Missouri 9 Illinois 8 Illinois State 6 Stanford 6 Florida 5 LSU 4 Texas A&M 3 Florida State 2 Utah State 1.
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Comments » 14
VOLKING writes:
Come on boys! If we can gel, we can be crazy good. If not, we are just an average team. It's asking a lot of these freshmen, but if anyone can gets these guys' heads on straight...Pearl can.
HtownVol writes:
Wow memphis is not so hot this year are they? What happened to them? And where are the fans that was talking all that trash about memphis being better than UT? Funny how they shut up now.
GreerVol22 writes:
Big campus, more girls than ever, and a coach that sweats a lot might be the cause of a few of our freshman issues...
Longtimevolfan writes:
Don't worry. The Memphismistake Tigerhigh bandwagon jumpers are all just laying in the weeds waiting for us to lose a couple of more games against quality teams. While they continue to play H.S. teams, which they should dominate...then they will all be back. However, isn't peaceful without them? They possibly could be hiding because they pulled out of the preseason tournament we were in because, and I quote their chicken coach..."I don't want to have to play them twice and one of the games not be at home". He was talikng about UT and Gonzaga...I guess they don't mind losing as long as it is at home....
pdhuff#552644 writes:
#14 - 'bout right.
overatedvols writes:
Games tonight: Tenn vs Lousiana Lafayette. Cupcake train continuses to roll on.
Memphis vs Cincinnati. Once again Memphis plays a quality opponent.
If you keep playing cupcakes you may make it to number 1 sooner or later. Oh but you have to deal with that grueling SEC schedule. SEC has how many in the top 25? Is it 5 or 6 teams? No wait, it's only 1.
Memphis has played Georgetown, Syracuse, and Cincy lately while the vols have been munching on cupcakes.
overatedvols writes:
Appears the Lousiana Laf. team is talking trash. The following quotes are from the Lousiana Lafayette Times.
Guard Tyrone Jones says "The only games they won were against nothin teams. When they play a good team they lose"
Center Jerome Johnson says "They ain't about nothin"
Forward Andre Jones says "Everybody knows there is only one good team in the state of Tenn. and it's over on the west side"
Coach Robert Cajun says "I just hope they don't overlook this Tenn. team. They've got a tendency to look past teams like Tenn. in anticipation of the better teams and bigger names on the schedule"
ncvol writes:
Hope we continue to move on up. We have to win and we can....
Go Vols!
WVVOLFAN writes:
The engine of the CUPCAKE TRAIN UT 66 MSU62 AT MEMPHIS
UT 90 Georgetown 78
MSU 70 Georgetown 79
Cupcake Train (CUSA Schedule) pulls out 1/7/09 vs Marshall
The rest of the CUSA grueling schedule:
01/10/09 at UCF *
Orlando, Fla. 4:00 p.m. CT
01/13/09 at Tulsa *
Tulsa, Okla. 6:30 p.m. CT
01/17/09 vs. UAB *
FedExForum 7:00 p.m. CT
01/21/09 vs. Rice *
FedExForum 8:00 p.m. CT
01/28/09 at East Carolina *
Greenville, N.C. 6:00 p.m. CT
01/31/09 vs. Houston *
FedExForum 12:00 p.m. CT
02/04/09 at SMU *
Dallas, Texas 8:00 p.m. CT
02/11/09 vs. Tulsa *
FedExForum 7:00 p.m. CT
02/14/09 at Southern Miss *
Hattiesburg, Miss. 4:00 p.m. CT
02/18/09 vs. SMU *
FedExForum 7:00 p.m. CT
02/21/09 at UTEP *
El Paso, Texas 3:00 p.m. CT
02/26/09 at UAB *
Birmingham, Ala. 8:00 p.m. CT
02/28/09 vs. Southern Miss *
FedExForum 12:00 p.m. CT
03/04/09 at Houston *
Houston, Texas 7:00 p.m. CT
03/07/09 vs. Tulane *
FedExForum 12:00 p.m. CT
TopTenn writes:
Over and bitesme my favorite tiger fans. You always get a laugh with those boys. tigers better not slip tonight or they are a #9 seed.
Irwin_Linker writes:
Memphis fans are hilarious...Don't respond to any of them, no matter how hard it may be. They know we are better, they also know we have a harder schedule. Cincinatti blows and whats really funny is that they will beat the tiger at home. I will be at the game wearing orange and cheering for the beatcats. Memphis NIT champions 09.
cainclifton23 writes:
Look at the last two Memphis and UT games..
Thanks.
And we have played GeorgeTown,Gonzaga,Temple,Siena,Marquette
and will play Gonzaga (again) and Kansas @ KU.
thank you, dont post garbage on here
Carlitovol writes:
WBIR is reporting that they took Chism to the hospital.. Why isn't GVX posting an update? Has anybody got any news? Kesling hasn't mentioned it yet on the post-game radio show...
overatedvols writes:
General, where are you looking. Just a quick scan of these sites doesn't agree.
http://kenpom.com/rate.php
http://collegerpi.com/
http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html
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