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I'm assuming because St. John's on the road is still a Q1 loss and throttling UConn helped them a lot more than the loss hurt them.
Probably because they throttled UCONN earlier in the week, the then #1 team I believe.
Because other results exist, and they beat the pants off #1 UConn. If Illinois had paired their PSU loss with a 20 point win over Purdue, they'd be treated similarly.
Tough to balance against the UConn win in the same week. Seems that was more valuable than SJU was detrimental.
What. Other. Teams. Do. Matter.
Agreed. I think this is going to be the norm moving forward with NIL. There will likely be a lot fewer of the dominant teams and a bunch of teams that can beat anybody (but then also lose to anybody). And I am completely fine with that.
16 in usa/coaches poll
They shouldn't have played so poorly in non con play then
That's what happens when you have HOME losses to Utah, Weber State, Missouri State, Xavier.
What is holding Saint Mary's back is their two Quad 3 losses (Weber State and Missouri State) and 11 Quad 4 games. A 9-6 non-conference season is always going to hold a WCC team back.
When you're an eternal doomer, it's easy. If you flip the scenario starting from the assumption that Illinois is *not* extremely overrated, it's easy to see how asinine it is.
