You always hear people say preseason basketball polls don’t mean anything, its where your team is ranked in March that matters. Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com thinks preseason polls do matter.
Here’s an excerpt.
Some people, for reasons I’ll never completely understand, love to insist on Twitter, message boards and talk radio that “preseason rankings are worthless” even though they’re actually pretty good indicators of what’s to come in college basketball. Ken Pomeroy, who is smarter than all of us, explained why in great detail a few years ago. And, contrary to popular belief, this season’s preseason Associated Press poll is generally holding up nicely even if the preseason No. 1 already has three losses.
That’s the issue, of course.
Kentucky and its three losses.
Everybody focuses on that and highlights it as proof that “preseason rankings are worthless” without recognizing that Kentucky isn’t nearly as bad as most seem to think, and that Kentucky’s fall from No. 1 in the preseason to No. 19 this week is a complete outlier when it comes to trying to gauge the quality of the preseason poll. As proof, consider that 17 of the schools ranked in the top 20 of the preseason AP poll are also ranked in the latest AP poll. That’s 85 percent of the top 20, for those who aren’t good at math.
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What do you think BBN, do preseason polls mean anything?
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