Any college basketball fan most likely wants their team to be number 1 or at least ranked in the top 25. It’s a common thing for people to want to win whether they are actually participating in the game/activity or not. Many fans have most likely been disappointed lately. It’s no secret that many highly ranked teams have been getting defeated in the past two weeks. If a team is ranked in the top 10 of the polls wouldn’t you think that they would be able to easily defeat an unranked team? That hasn’t been the case lately.

Every week the rankings are changing because teams such as Syracuse and Kansas are losing to teams that they really shouldn’t be losing to when they were ranked 1 and 5 at the time of the game. There’s been a lot of talk lately amongst college students of different schools that maybe some of these teams don’t deserve to be ranked at all. Some students have been saying that if the number 1 team in the nation can lose to an unranked team and come close to doing it again when they are ranked number 4 then why should they be ranked so high? I brought this topic up with Ohio State students and got a very different response.

Ohio State started out this season undefeated for their first eight games. They lost their first game of the season to Kansas. The thing is though, while Ohio State has lost 3 games thus far in the season, the Kansas game was the only one that was a loss by more than 10 points (it was a loss of 11). The other two losses have been less than 5 points. Ohio State students use these stats to support their reasoning that Ohio State does deserve to be ranked number 3 right now. As for Syracuse and Kansas though, they didn’t really have an opinion. All that most of the students stated on the other schools was that if they are ranked the best then they should play like the best. A school doesn’t win games by knowing how to play the game, they win games by proving that they are worthy of the win and the ranking that they have.