Play better and get less respect. That seems to be the message the pollsters are sending to the Hoyas this week. After destroying JMU and easily beating a good Oral Roberts team Georgetown finally looked like the squad that got all of the hype at the beginning of the year.
And the result? Less votes in the polls. I didn't expect us to vault back into the Top 25. We don't deserve that (yet). But I did think that a couple of the early believers might start turning an eye back towards the Blue & Gray. No such luck.
Last week, after their back-to-back losses to Oregon and Duke, GU received only 5 votes in the ESPN/USA Today poll and 60 votes in the AP poll. After a very impressive week, the Hoyas now only managed 2 votes from ESPN/USA Today voters and 24 votes from the AP.
It looks like the road back to respect will be a long one.
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We're going to have to beat some good teams to get recognized by the voters. I actually think it hurts us that our two bad losses against Oregon and ODU were not televised. I read a report the other day that described both as "blowouts." We blew both of those games by getting into an offensive funk in the last 10 minutes but led almost the entire way. Anybody who has seen the last two games can recognize that this is a different team. They have figured out how to work the offense and Jeff and Roy are now playing with some passion. But none of this has been in the public view. When we smoke Michigan, Notre Dame, and Nova, people will wake up. The team is starting to come together.
I wouldn't worry too much about the polls at all. It's BE standings that will give credence to the team's strength. But, the polls do make more sense in terms of credibility & respect once conference play is under way.
I think the loss to ODU hurts more because it was in our own gym. A top ranked team losing a "tune-up" match in their own gym weighs strongly on a pollster.
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