Apparently Texas has been hit with another injustice in a poll, and again it falls behind a team it crushed by double-digit points.
No, you haven’t been transported back to 2008, when the Texas football team was robbed by some questionable coaches’ ballots that had Texas out of the top 5 completely. This time it’s college basketball in which the Longhorns were wronged.
Texas humiliated then-#2 Kansas in their own house, the first team to even beat, much less humiliate, the Jayhawks in 69 games. Texas came up short in the next polls, falling one behind Kansas in both polls that week.
Apparently double-digit humiliating away victories fail to impress the select coaches who vote in the top 25.
The Longhorns’ resume this season is quite impressive. They have won 10 straight, with victories over (then) #16 Illinois, #12 Michigan St, North Carolina, #10 Texas A&M, #2 Kansas, #13 Missouri & #16 Texas A&M.
Texas’ only real blemish is its humiliating defeat at the hands of the USC Trojans early in the season. After that, Texas lost to UCONN in OT 81-82, and on a last-second miracle shot by Pitt, 66-68.
Update
The AP poll was just released, with Ohio State getting #2 over Texas by 1 point despite Texas garnering the most #1 votes.
A few questionable ballots had Texas as low as #5. Bruce Pascoe of the Arizona Daily, Dave Jones of the Patriots News in Pennsylvania, Roger Clarkson of the Athens Banner-Herald and Ron Morris of The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina all turned in the questionable ballots.
The ballots for Texas can be read HERE (Courtesy of Poll Speak)
