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Ranking the Rankings: Providencial Putz

Ranking the rankings criticizes the critics when the polls come out.Headlining: Pittsburgh took over first in the country after beating Connecticut two weeks ago. All it had to do was beat Providence and the Panthers would get to sit pretty at No. 1 overall, possibly cruising to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. Yet,...

Ranking the Rankings: Pitt's Full Circle

Ranking the rankings criticizes the critics when the polls come out.Headlining: Pittsburgh beat Connecticut to kick off the week, led by DeJuan Blair's ridiculous 22-point, 23-rebound effort. It seemed relatively unlikely at the time that the Panthers could manage to jump both North Carolina and Oklahoma, providing that...

Ranking the Rankings: UConn Still No. 1*

Ranking the rankings criticizes the critics when the polls come out.Headlining: The beauty of a Tuesday column, at least this season, is that whoever ends up No. 1 can do so with an asterisk based on Monday's games. (*In case you didn't know already, Pittsburgh beat Connecticut.) And it appears that next week, we'll likely...

Ranking the Rankings: Stagnance

Ranking the rankings criticizes the critics when the polls come out.Headlining: Connecticut tops the charts ... again. This isn't surprising, because they didn't lose. The fact that they didn't lose -- something that's happened to a lot of No. 1 teams -- is what's mildly shocking, especially considering they had a Monday...

Ranking the Rankings: UConn's Turn

Ranking the rankings criticizes the critics when the polls come out.Headlining: Connecticut became the fourth straight different No. 1 when they hopped to the first overall spot this week. As Ray Holloman noted yesterday, there's a lot of parity in college basketball. The Huskies, however, look like a pretty good bet to...