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Monday, March 01 2010

Top Five Chaos Leads to Unnecessary Debate Over Who is No. 1

Kansas losing at Oklahoma State and Syracuse romping against Villanova has created quite the stir among college basketball pundits over who should be one and who should be two.

Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports and Gary Parish of CBS have Kansas No. 1 and Syracuse at two. Syracuse fans went irate on Twitter. Seth Davis has them reversed and Kansas fans are letting him have it (to be fair, he's drawing more ire from Purdue faithful over dropping them to 13).

Clearly, no matter what you vote, someone isn't going to be happy.

But guess what? It doesn't matter. If you are a KU or SU fan and you are upset about being No. 2, you aren't being level-headed. And that's not because of the old saying, "polls don't matter," but because there is really no way to differentiate the two teams.

Both schools have near identical resumes and play in two conferences of very similar strengths...
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