LSU men's basketball still not ranked? I hope Wade's team kicks plenty butt!

It’s mainly on reputation at this point. Look at that list, it’s mostly all teams with long histories. And yes I do believe some in the press detest wade and will never give him the benefit of the doubt.
But rankings after 2 games are meaningless.

In basketball AP rankings don't matter at all.

It is the NET formula rankings that matter. NET will take care of itself as we win.

if there’s 43 better basketball teams in the country I’ll blow my head off

frick the AP

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But rankings after 2 games are meaningless.

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Do they ever really matter?

Why does this matter?

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For the end result of Wade building a championship program they do.

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Despite being "hidden in the abyss" Wade is recruiting just fine. THAT is the most important step to building a championship program. LSU lack of ranking in polls no one pays attention to hasn't effected that.

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If you aren’t ranked you are invisible nationally. You get relegated to the sec network and never have your highlights shown at halftime of other games etc.

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The networks on which the games will be broadcast are chosen BEFORE the season starts. LSU was justifiably unranked before this season. Nevertheless, only 7 of LSU's 19 games from Dec. 29 (SEC opener) through the end of the season are on the SEC Network. The rest are on ESPN/2/U. The SEC Network games are against:

Texas A&M 2x
Ole Miss
Vanderbilt
Georgia
Missouri
South Carolina

Not coincidentally, those are the teams picked to finish 9-14 in the league. So is LSU not being ranked the reason why those games are on a "lesser" network, or is it a by product of LSU's opponents not being looked at as marquee?

For comparison, Kentucky, a preseason top 10 team with FAR more history and national appeal will STILL play four games on the SECN...all against teams picked to finish at the bottom of the league. In the OOC schedule Kentucky plays on the SECN for every game except those against: Duke, Notre Dame, Ohio St., Louisville, Kansas. If LSU were playing those "name brand" teams...regardless of if LSU is ranked or not... they would be on more "premiere" networks. Want proof? LSU is scheduled to play both Georgia Tech and TCU on ESPN2

So, in total, the ranking are meaningless.

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Ultimately the media for some reason still hates the guy and it chaps their arse that they couldn’t get him in trouble. We have been top tier of the sec year after year and had a great recruiting class and great transfers.

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LSU lost 75%-80% of their total production from last year's team. A team that was an 8 seed in the NCAAT and exited in the round of 32. LSU not being ranked in the preseason was completely reasonable and had very little, if anything, to do with some "media conspiracy". But even if it did, who cares? The media's rankings are WHOLLY IRRELEVANT.

Just ask the 17-18 St. Mary's basketball team who was ranked in the top 20 in the final regular season media/coaches polls and DID NOT get selected for the NCAAT as an at large.