by Bobby Knight | Mar 9, 2016 | Blog
The third computer rankings of the year are out and while there was still a good bit of movement it wasn’t as drastic as in the past two weeks.North Carolina remains at #1 while Ohio State rises up from #4 to #2 after getting the big road win at Oklahoma. TCU stays at #3 while Virginia drops from #2 to #4 with Oklahoma State staying at #5.Kentucky and Tulane were the biggest movers in the top 25 with Kentucky rising from #22 to #12 while Tulane rose from #35 to #21. NC State came back up 13 spots from #40 to #27 after winning at Wake Forest and SMU went from unranked to #37 after beating both Wichita State and Tulsa last week.Old Dominion, LSU, Iowa, and...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
The second computer rankings of the year are out and as expected there was a lot of movement throughout the top 75. As I mentioned in the past it usually takes at least 3 weeks of computer rankings before things start to level out some but they really will come into better focus later in March when the number of countable wins climbs past five.The top two stayed the same with North Carolina at #1 and Virginia at #2 while TCU jumped up to #3 off the strength of its ranked road wins over Illinois and Wisconsin. Oklahoma State came up from #9 to #5 due to its strong win over South Florida and Northwestern enters the top 10 at #9 due to it having five wins over...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
The first computer rankings of the year are out with the ACC occupying three of the top five spots. North Carolina is sitting pretty comfortably at #1 with a nine point lead over #2 Virginia though Virginia has an almost eleven point lead over Ohio State.As a reminder these rankings are based off last week’s rankings, which were done by the rankings committee, so I’d expect to see a lot more shifting next week too. This week the computer used each team’s 4 best wins but for the next 3 weeks it’ll use each team’s 5 best wins.My projections were good up top but were off a little towards the bottom – I had a couple of...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
We are three days removed from North Carolina’s stunning win over Virginia but I went back and recapped the whole weekend in an article that I did for the Tennis Recruiting Network. If you haven’t already seen it give this link a click.Here are is my top 25 based off what I’ve seen so far – I have notable wins and all losses listed for reference. The number inside [ ] is where I had them last week.1. North Carolina (10-0) [5] – won at Virginia, UCLA, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and Illinois. Tar Heels won the National Team Indoors in unbelievable fashion beating Virginia in Charlottesville. Next...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
The post NTI Oracle ITA men’s rankings are out and North Carolina is sitting pretty at #1 after winning the title. Since there weren’t any published rankings last week we saw a good bit of movement throughout the Top 75 and also a lot of movement within the Top 10.Both UCLA and Wake Forest came up five spots to #4 and #5 while Texas A&M dropped four spots to #7. Oklahoma and USC each dropped three spots to #8 and #9 while Texas Tech entered the top 10 at #10.#56 Wisconsin made the biggest jump by coming up 18 spots from #74 after winning at then #23 Minnesota. #45 Minnesota took the biggest fall after dropping 22 spots due to home losses...
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