Louisville Basketball: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of The Week 9 AP Poll
By Derek Snyder
We take a look at where Louisville basketball landed in the week 9 AP Poll and the good, the bad, and the ugly of the rankings.
The Louisville basketball team was able to avenge their tough loss to Virginia by beating Indiana, on the road, on Saturday afternoon. We obviously knew that the loss to the Cavaliers would hurt them in the rankings a little, but I honestly didn’t think they would drop three spots.
If you haven’t taken a look at the Associated Press’ AP Poll for this week, you can check it out on their official website here.
With that being said, there were some good things that came out of this poll, some bad, and some ugly. Let’s begin with the good that starts with the up-and-coming Creighton Blue Jays.
The Good: Keeping Creighton At #10
I wasn’t too sure how the Associated Press would treat the Blue Jays after they lost their first game of the season to #1 Villanova last weekend. Big East conference basketball teams tend to get dropped out of the top ten if they even lose one game, but it’s apparent that they did their homework on Creighton.
In all fairness to the Blue Jays and their fans, the loss to #1 Villanova is the only game that they were overpowered.
Creighton has already beaten Ole Miss, NC State, and Wisconsin this season. While those are all teams that Louisville could beat, we have to understand that those are big wins for a basketball program like Creighton.