Florida Gators (12-3, 1-0 SEC) dropped out of the ESPN/USA Today and Associated Press Top 25 polls three weeks ago and have since been stuck in limbo. Though they won two games (one in impressive fashion, the other hard-fought) over the last week, Florida did not find themselves back in the polls when they were released on Monday.
Athlete | Country | Sport |
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Mark Kolozsvary | USA | Baseball |
Marife Torres | Puerto Rico | Golf |
Leanne Wong | USA | Gymnastics |
Adriana Leon | Canada | Soccer |
Deanne Rose | Canada | Soccer |
Michelle Moultrie | USA | Softball |
Aubree Munro | USA | Softball |
Kelsey Stewart | USA | Softball |
Caeleb Dressel | USA | Swimming 4x100 free 100m free 50m free |
Amro Al-Wir | Jordan | Swimming 200 breast |
Natalie Hinds | USA | Swimming 4x100 free |
Bobby Finke | USA | Swimming 800m free 1500m free |
Eric Friese | Germany | Swimming 4x100 free |
Enzo Martinez | Uruguay | Swimming 50m free |
Alfonso Mestre | Venezuela | Swimming 800m free |
Kieran Smith | USA | Swimming 400m free 200m free 4x200 free |
Andres Arroyo | Puerto Rico | T&F 800m |
Doneisha Anderson | Bahamas | T&F 4x400 relay |
Lloydricia Cameron | Jamaica | T&F Shot put |
Will Claye | USA | T&F Triple jump |
Marquis Dendy | USA | T&F Long jump |
Yanis David | France | T&F Triple jump Long jump |
Joseph Fahnbulleh | Liberia | T&F 200m |
Grant Holloway | USA | T&F 110m hurdles |
Genevive LaCaze | Australia | T&F 3000m steeple |
Eddie Lovett | U.S. Virgin | T&F 110m hurdles |
Taylor Mason | USA | T&F |
Cory McGee | USA | T&F 1500m |
Hakim Sani Brown | Japan | T&F 200m |
Marija Vucenovic | Serbia | T&F Javelin |
ESPN/USA TODAY
Last Week 1-25: Duke (31*), Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, San Diego State, Villanova, Missouri, Connecticut, Purdue, Kentucky, Texas, Georgetown, Brigham Young, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Kansas State, Central Florida, Michigan State, Illinois, Minnesota, Memphis, Louisville, Vanderbilt, Cincinnati
+ Florida received 9 voting points, good for 34th overall
This Week 1-25: Duke (31*), Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, San Diego State, Villanova, Purdue, Connecticut, Brigham Young, Notre Dame, Missouri, Texas A&M, Texas, Kentucky, Illinois, Louisville, Washington, Georgetown, Kansas State, Wisconsin, Central Florida, Temple, Michigan State, Minnesota
+ Florida received 20 voting points, good for 33rd overall
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last Week 1-25: Duke (65*), Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, San Diego State, Villanova, Connecticut, Missouri, Kentucky, Purdue, Texas, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Brigham Young, Texas A&M, Kansas State, Michigan State, Central Florida, Illinois, Memphis, Vanderbilt, Washington, Cincinnati, UNLV
+ Florida received 35 voting points, good for 31st overall
This Week 1-25: Duke (65*), Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, San Diego State, Villanova, Purdue, Notre Dame, Connecticut, Brigham Young, Texas, Kentucky, Texas A&M, Missouri, Illinois, Washington, Louisville, Temple, Wisconsin, Kansas State, Georgetown, Central Florida, Georgia, Cincinnati
Florida received 110 voting points, good for 29th overall
* Numbers represent first-place votes.
If breaking into the Top 25 again means another miserable loss, then I hope the Gators stay out of the Top 25 for a while since it is a pointless tool in College Basketball anyway.
This team will win 1 game out of the next 5. That’s why their not and shouldn’t be ranked. They’re not very good.
I don’t care. We’ll teach them to respect us soon enough.
And Good news – Lunardi has us as a 5 seed in this weeks Bracketology (Top 20). I’ll take that over a top 25 in the polls any day of the week.
Really ncgator? I didn’t know it was like that? I think this team is showing signs of improvement. They can play any of the next five down to the wire. We’ll see about 4 losses… I really hope this is not the case.
Joe: OK, 2 games
Yeah the rankings don’t mean a lot right now, so long as we
finish well in the SEC we’ll be alright. This team can win, the
pieces are there, hopefully they buy in.
I would be shocked if we do any worse than 3-2 in our next five games. Tonight will be tough (depending on which Tennessee team shows up), and Georgia will be really tough on the road. There’s no excuse for losing the other three. Neither South Carolina nor Arkansas are very good (despite their wins this past weekend), so you have to win those at home, and Auburn is probably the worst team in the SEC so that should be a double digit win, even on the road.
3-2 over the next 5 games puts us at 15-5 and well on our way to the NIT.
Actually Florida was 15-5 last year (also 16-6, 17-7, 18-8, 20-11) and made the tournament.
And if I’m not mistaken (which I very well could be) we didn’t have a win against a top-10 team like we do this year against KState
Beat No. 2 Michigan State, lost to No. 6 Syracuse (85-73)
ahhh right forgot about the MSU win…thanks for the reminder Adam!
Is the goal to limp our way into the tournament OR field a
less talented well coached team that displays solid fundamentals
and ball handling skills day in and day out? Frankly, I’ll take the
latter.
Frankly, I’ll take the team that makes the tournament, however they make it. (limping, crawling, defecating on themselves, etc.). As long as they get announced on Selection Sunday I’ll be happy. And the tournament isn’t until March so who knows how they will be playing then. And they’ve won four in a row including a road win at Xavier, so they’re not exactly limping.
They’ve already defecated on themselves in Jacksonville so we’ve got that covered. Actually, that was pretty funny. I’m not sure limping, crawling or defecating into the tournament only to lose in the 1st or 2nd round accomplishes anything. It sure hasn’t helped recruiting.