Apparently Texas has been hit with another injustice in a poll, and again it falls behind a team it crushed by double digits.
No, you haven’t been transported back to 2008, when the Texas football team was robbed by some questionable coaches’ ballots that left it 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. And still the Longhorns came up short in the next polls, falling one spot behind Kansas in both.
Apparently double-digit humiliating road victories fail to impress the select coaches who vote in the Top 25.
The Longhorns’ résumé this season is awfully impressive. They have won 10 straight, with victories over (then) #16 Illinois, #12 Michigan State, North Carolina, #10 Texas A&M, #2 Kansas, #13 Missouri, and #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, the Longhorns lost to UConn in overtime, 82-81, and on a last-second miracle shot by Pitt, 68-66.
Update
The AP poll was just released, with Ohio State edging Texas for #2 by a single point — despite Texas garnering the most #1 votes.
A few questionable ballots had Texas as low as #5. Bruce Pascoe of the Arizona Daily Star, Dave Jones of the Patriot-News in Pennsylvania, Roger Clarkson of the Athens Banner-Herald, and Ron Morris of The State in Columbia, South Carolina, all turned in the head-scratchers.
The ballots for Texas can be read HERE (courtesy of Poll Speak).
