Way to early top 25

[root_hawg]

Has four teams from SEC, Texas AM aND Bama to go with Florida and number 1 Kentucky.  We were not even in the others considered category...

[daBoar]

Well, it's not like our returning center looks like a scoring machine.  And we've lost Hannahs.

[FineAsSwine]

Has four teams from SEC, Texas AM aND Bama to go with Florida and number 1 Kentucky.  We were not even in the others considered category...

Do you know how to catch a unique rabbit? Well.... unique up on him.

Same way we gonna have to creep up on the top 25. Before they know what happened, we gon be in there. How bow dah?

[Hawg Red]

Understandable that we would not be a ranked team after losing 3 valuable seniors (two of which either were or had an argument for All-SEC). We weren't ranked at any point this season, either. We'll get there.....soon. Luckily for this upcoming season, most of the rotation players will have been on the team this season instead of having 6-7 new faces in the rotation. It should be easier to acclimate 3 talented freshmen than half a roster. Macon and Barford will be ready to go. Dustin Thomas, Anton Beard, and Trey Thompson need to make that jump as seniors and be ready to produce on a more consistent basis. I figure Arlando Cook will get a little better, too. We are getting faster, quicker, longer, more athletic, and more skilled on the whole replacing Kingsley, Hannahs and Watkins with Gafford, Garland, and Hall. We will not get that combination of veteran leadership and skill/production that we got from those 3 seniors, but hopefully most of that will be offset by 6 seniors stepping up.

[FineAsSwine]

It should be easier to acclimate 3 talented freshmen than half a roster. Macon and Barford will be ready to go.

Nail on the head there brother.

[SONofHAM]

http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/gallery/college-basketball-rankings-2018-way-too-early-top-25-040417

[ShadowHawg]

We lost some key players. Over the last 20 years, we have not shown to be a program that absorbs this kind of thing and keeps moving forward.

Like the title says, way too early. I would rather be ranked in February than April.

[LRHog]

http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/gallery/college-basketball-rankings-2018-way-too-early-top-25-040417

Those guys are morons. No one can say Alabama who didnt make the tourney should be considered better than a team that went, and should've beaten the national champion. Seton hall above us too... LMAO.

What a crock of darn.

[HF#1]

Alabama's ranking is only based on the incoming 5* one and done kid coming in.

[HF#1]

I like what we have coming back despite losing Dusty, Moses, and Manny. We will have a solid squad that will be ranked come tournament time.