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December 19, 2006

MRI2006: Week 3 - Clemson? Really?

Editor's Note: These ratings cover the games through December 10th.

I would have never counted on this. The Clemson Tigers are undefeated. Ok, maybe I could have counted on them being undefeated but not being the best team in the MRI through December 10th. And I definitely didn't count on them holding that spot for two weeks in a row.

Yet, Clemson is sitting on top of the world right now. Behind them are names you would probably expect to be at the top. Duke, Florida, Pittsburgh, Connecticut. But not Clemson.

The ACC season is tipping off soon, so we will quickly learn if this is a fluke, or for real. Clemson seems to do this every year (although not #1), and yet they drift away as the season moves on to where they are struggling to make the NIT. 10-0 is nothing to laugh at though. They are half way to that magical 20 win season.

Check out all the rankings in Week 3 of the MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
Clemson
10-0
103.99
1
2
Duke
9-1
103.23
5
3
Florida
8-2
99.72
9
4
Pittsburgh
10-0
99.24
3
5
Connecticut
8-0
97.95
16
6
Missouri
9-1
97.37
2
7
North Carolina
7-1
95.69
15
8
Arizona
7-1
94.68
NR(28)
9
Illinois
9-2
93.96
12
10
Kansas
8-2
93.20
24
11
Air Force
9-1
92.34
6
12
Oregon
7-0
91.96
8
13
UCLA
7-0
91.77
13
14
Gonzaga
9-2
90.14
14
15
Ohio State
8-1
88.95
11
16
Michigan State
9-2
88.56
NR(31)
17
Providence
7-2
88.38
4
18
Wisconsin
9-1
87.43
NR(26)
19
Michigan
10-1
84.82
19
20
Marquette
8-2
84.61
7
21
Maryland
9-2
84.02
18
22
Memphis
7-2
82.32
22
23
Notre Dame
7-1
81.82
25
24
Villanova
6-2
80.45
17
25
Oklahoma State
11-0
80.22
NR(33)

Teams Dropped From The Top 25:
Texas A&M (LW #10, TW #30), Xavier (LW #20, TW #35), Butler (LW #21, TW #27), Nevada (LW #23, TW #45)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LY
26
Tennessee
7-2
79.55
38
30
Texas A&M
7-2
77.03
10
32
Florida State
8-2
75.88
60
33
Purdue
8-1
75.56
55
41
Indiana
5-3
71.75
48
46
Georgia Tech
6-3
70.07
32
50
Texas Tech
8-3
68.79
65
51
LSU
5-2
68.75
50
54
Washington
7-1
66.23
43
55
Miami
6-3
65.80
57
59
Texas
6-2
63.90
49
60
Northern Iowa
8-1
63.20
61
65
Dayton
8-1
60.74
59
67
Boston College
6-2
60.24
102
86
Drexel
5-2
50.55
135
93
Auburn
6-3
47.48
104
102
Vanderbilt
5-3
44.75
210
104
Kentucky
6-3
44.60
126
105
Ohio
5-2
44.58
99
114
Iowa
5-4
42.50
109
115
Pennsylvania
4-4
42.33
115
145
Illinois-Chicago
4-5
33.73
166
164
Ball State
3-6
27.66
162
292
Wofford
2-6
-2.47
294

Last Place this week: Winston Salem (0-12) at -41.34.

Biggest Gain this week: Vanderbilt gained 25.39 points (Beat East Tennessee State, Lipscomb, and Georgia Tech)
Biggest Loss this week: South Dakota State lost 18.83 points (Lost to Minnesota and Montana)

Conference rankings this week: ACC, Big East, Big Ten, PAC-10, SEC, Big 12, MVC, Mountain West, C-USA, Atlantic 10, WAC

The MRI Rankings are copyright 2006 by MRISports.com. Ben Miraski writes for MRISports.com and is a featured blogger on FanIQ. Readers can contact Ben at bmiraski@mrisports.com

Posted by bmiraski at December 19, 2006 9:30 AM

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