I don’t think anyone was expecting a top 25 appearance in this week’s NCAA rankings, but I would think that going toe to toe with the #1 ranked team in the country would command a little bit more attention than this:
Before Kansas Game:
After Kansas Game:
Net result: we pick up one vote in the ESPN/USA Today poll and three votes in the AP poll. The remaining fourteen games are against Ivy League opponents, so probably not much help there. Maybe we have to win a game in the tournament before our basketball team gets some real national attention?
I don’t follow basketball polls as closely as hockey ones, but it seems like poll votes are based on wins and losses, not really what the score was. It doesn’t matter whether you win by 1 or 40 points, so long as you win. Similarly, I don’t think polls reward teams for losing close games to good teams.
I’m also not sure I would claim that Cornell is a top-25 team. We’ve had some good results, but we haven’t beaten anyone in the top 25. Only a few of the ranked teams have more losses than we do.