The B.I.A.H Not-Top-10 Rankings

Every week, writers, publications, media outlets and bloggers issue their Top-25 rankings for the week. A majority of the time, everybody has the virtually same opinion of all the teams.

If you want to find this week's top-25 rankings, you've come to the wrong place. Here you will find our rankings for the 10 worst team performances in the NCAA. This list isn't just home to the winless mid-major bottom-feeders. No, here you will find the biggest underachievers, slumpers and teams in a funk, the worst weekly performers, and the teams that just plain suck. Now there will be teams on this list that are better than teams not on this list. But come on people, we are trying to be creative, just work with us.

Last Week's Not-Top-10 Rankings


The Not-Top-10 List
The number in parentheses is the team's Not-Top-10 rank from the previous week

1. Wake Forest Demon Deacons (6)
Record: 5-4
KenPom Rank: 155

Listen, it's understandable for a team with a new coach, young players and some off-the-court issues to struggle early in the season. But it's not understandable when said-team is a traditional power in the ACC and has lost all four games to mid-major teams. The Deacons most recent loss was by 12 points to UNC-Wilmington. Wake has yet to have an impressive win. In fact, they only beat winless Holy Cross by 11. If it were up to me, I'd demote Wake Forest to the Big South Conference.


2. Chicago State Cougars (3)
Record: 2-7
KenPom Rank: 343

Last week I detailed just how bad the Cougars defense was, so this week, I'll take a shot at their offense. Against Stephen F. Austin over the weekend, the Cougars scored 38 points. At the half it was 41-14. The final was 94-38, which is not too far off from the elusive triple-dip. That's pretty bad. SFA is a decent defensive team, mid-majorly speaking of course, but it's not acceptable to get beaten by almost double your entire output. Now to the defense. You know it must be bad when they've given up more than 90 points seven times.


3. Auburn Tigers (1)
Record: 3-5
KenPom Rank: 210

The Tiger's drop two spots from last week's rankings. But it's not because they played any better this week. It just happened that two teams played even worse than them. Auburn had one game this past week, and it was against Rutgers, the perennial Big East bottom-feeder. We predicted Auburn to lose by 20, and they proved us wrong, only losing by nine. But they had to fight back in garbage time to make the game close. in fact, Auburn didn't score for roughly seven minutes in the second half. In fact, the Tigers had four scoreless droughts during the game totaling nearly 17 minutes of basketball without scoring a single point. Maybe Tony Barbee should see if Cam Newton is available after the BCS Championship game.


4. DePaul Blue Demons (NR)
Record: 3-6
KenPom Rank: 209

You know it was just a matter of time before DePaul would state their case for being the worst BCS-conference team in the country. Look at this twitpic and try to tell me it's not the funniest thing you've seen in a while. Listen, I know the Blue Demons last loss was a two-point overtime defeat against 5-and-3 Ball State, but lets dig a littler bit deeper. To do so, we must use the age-old tradition of transitive math, a.k.a NCAAlgebra. DePaul lost to Ball State. Ball State lost to D-II Alaska-Anchorage by 18. DePaul also lost to Indiana State by 22, who lost to Wyoming by 30 who lost to North Florida by 16. I'm not sure what all this means except that DePaul is DePaulful.


5. Colgate Red Raiders (NR)
Record: 0-8
KenPom Rank: 332

I could have put Colgate in last week's Not-Top-10 but ultimately decided to omit them. Well, this week I have no choice. Why? Well, it's not even because they haven't won a game, and it's not because they haven't scored over 66 points in a game this season (well, I guess it kinda has to do with that). No, the main reason Colgate gets listed is because they scored a mere EIGHT points in the first have of their 100-43 loss at Syracuse. Yea, EIGHT points. I don't care how bad you are, or how good your opponent is, eight points in twenty minutes is pathetic. This isn't girls high school basketball.


6. St. John's Red Storm (NR)
Record: 5-3
KenPom Rank: 58

Rick Pitino must kinda feel like an idiot right now. He gave the Red Storm a first place vote at Big East media day. Well, although the Johnnies are 5-3, they've lost their last two games to St. Bonaventure's and Fordham. I cannot remember the last year St. Bonaventure's was even borderline relevant. Now I understand that the Bonnies won on a buzzer-beater, but still, St. John's never should have put themselves in that position. Against Fordham, they blew a 21-point lead, and shot 4-20 from behind the arc. It's a shame the Johnnies can't play a Big East schedule that consists of just Rutgers, Seton Hall, South Florida and DePaul, because they might actually be competitive in that. Wait no never mind, St. John's would probably struggle in the A-10.


7. Hartford Hawks (NR)
Record: 2-8
KenPom Rank: 277

Wondering why a team who lost in double-OT made the list? Well, their opponents, Monmouth, didn't score their first field goal until the eight minute mark of the first half. That's the longest scoreless drought of any D-I team in the country, including Colgate, who, as I mentioned, scored just eight points in the first half of their game against Syracuse. On top of that, Hartford shot a dismal 33% (6-18) from the charity stripe, just 34% overall, and six of the ten hawks who got playing time didn't score a point. In fact, Clayton Brothers and Anthony Minor combined for 72 minutes of playing time, and together they score just one more point than I did, and I was no where near Monmouth, NJ this weekend. Want more? I got more. Hartford blew a 20 points lead to Sacred Heart in the last 8:17 of a game last week.


8. Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns (NR)
Record: 1-7
KenPom Rank: 272

This one is easy. You don't lose to a NAIA team and NOT make the Not-Top-10 rankings, and that's just what Louisiana-Lafayette did. They lost to Texas College 77-74 over the weekend. The Cajuns have now lost six in a row since they got their first and only win of the season, a 91-66 win over Louisiana College, another NAIA school. For a team that hasn't won a true D-I game, they aren't THAT bad. OK, maybe they are, but until Cleveland State loses a game or two, the five-point loss they had against the Vikings won't look THAT bad. At least not to Louisiana-Lafayette.


9. Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos (NR)
Record: 5-4
KenPom Rank: 296

What has happened to the once-undefeated Kangaroos of UMKC? They have lost four out of their last five, including a 37-point loss to Oakland and a 21-point loss to 3-and-5 Idaho State. But there is more bad news for the 'Roos: they still have to play Kansas and Kansas State.


10. Texas Tech Red Raiders (NR)
Record: 5-5
KenPom Rank: 99

What is it about teams with red in their names that make them suck so much? Pat Knight is coaching for his job this year, and so far it does not look too good. They've lost to North Texas in OT by nine. North Texas is a good mid-major team, but losing by nine in an overtime session means you decided to pack it in at the end of regulation. They've also lost to St. Mary's by 20, Washington by 29, and most recently to TCU. Texas Tech losing to TCU in football is acceptable, but not in basketball. Not when the son of Bobby Knight coaches your team.