2010-11 Rankings - Basketball

by ucatsrick on Mar 7, 2026 10:57 AM EST

The AP ranked the Bearcats at #25 for 2 weeks (weeks ( and 10). ESPN/USAToday ranked the Bearctas for week 9 only at #25. At that point in the season that was probably worthy. However, later in the season, while the Bearcats were winning 5 of their last 6, including 3 games against ranked opponents, we get no respect form the pollsters.

The AP does make their writer/voters known, but ESPN/USAToday does make their coaches known. Here is the published list of coaches voting in their poll all seaosn long.

The USA TODAY/ESPN Board of Coaches is made up of 31 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

The board for the 2010-11 season:

Mike Adras, Northern Arizona
Tommy Amaker, Harvard
Tevester Anderson, Jackson State
Ronnie Arrow, South Alabama
Randy Bennett, Saint Mary's
Eddie Biedenbach, North Carolina-Asheville
Jim Boeheim, Syracuse
Rick Byrd, Belmont
Patrick Chambers, Boston University
Charlie Coles, Miami (Ohio)
Ed Cooley, Fairfield
Scott Drew, Baylor
Steve Fisher, San Diego State
Don Friday, St..Francis (Pa.)
Ben Jacobson, Northern Iowa
Rob Jeter, Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Billy Kennedy, Murray State
Billy Lange, Navy
Mike McConathy, Northwestern State
Bob McKillop, Davidson
Phil Martelli, Saint Joseph?s
Ronald "Fang" Mitchell, Coppin State
Matt Painter, Purdue
John Pelphrey, Arkansas
Herb Sendek, Arizona State
Shaka Smart, Virginia Commonwealth
Scott Sutton, Oral Roberts
Don Verlin, Idaho
Bob Williams, UC-Santa Barbara
Gary Williams, Maryland
Doug Wojcik, Tulsa

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March 7 Rankings

Bearcats #25
9 Big East teams in this week’s poll:

Pitt (3), ND (4), Syracuse (11), Louisville (15), St John (17), WV (20), UConn (21), Georgetwon (22), Cincy (25)

I would think that 2 convincing wins over Gtown would put Cincy above them.

Ucats Rick

by ucatsrick on Mar 7, 2026 4:35 PM EST reply actions

AP and Coaches polls mean nothing

RPI means even less. All three of those are as faulty as the BCS system is for football.

Some sites that I would recommend for better polls: kenpom.com or usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkt1011.htm

by BigStein on Mar 8, 2026 10:42 PM EST reply actions

Ken Pom is invaluable

All you do is click on a team and everything about them that you could ever want to know is laid out in a really simple, really elegant way. It makes doing research on teams infinitely easier and simpler.

by Matt Opper on Mar 9, 2026 10:20 AM EST up reply actions

Need to study KenPom

I’m not sure how to interpret the data he provides. I’ve heard Ken on WLW a couple of times recetnly and he sounds like he’s taken a very scientific approach to rating players and teams.

Ucats Rick

by ucatsrick on Mar 10, 2026 10:29 AM EST up reply actions

The basics are that he doesn’t look at total numbers in any case. With the 35 second shot clock there is such a wide variation in pace of play from team to team. So a team that plays at a faster pace is generally going to have more of everything, turnovers and points, rebounds and steals. But those base numbers tell nothing of how efficient a team is at doing any given thing. For example team A plays at a fast pace and averages 10 offensive rebounds a game. Team B on the other hand plays at a glacial pace and only averages 7 per game. Based on that you would say that team A is a better offensive rebounding team But if I told you that team A only rebounds 25 per cent of their misses while team B rebounds 45 per cent of their own misses it becomes clear that team B is the far superior offensive rebounding team and that team A only gets a higher total per game is because they take and miss far more shots than team B.

by Matt Opper on Mar 10, 2026 12:14 PM EST up reply actions