mainly because they soundly defeated us on our home court.

But it's a long season and everybody has a loss coming somewhere. Last year by the end of the reg season only UConn was undefeated.

First of all, the final score might have looked like "sounding defeating" but for most of the game ND was in it (within 6 with about 8 minutes left), and you can bet with the high profile of this game, pretty much every pollster was watching it.

Unless ND completely stunk it up from tip-off (which didn't happen) ND was likely only going to fall to #2, maybe #3 at worst.

It's been helped by the last 6-7 years when it was pretty much UConn and ND (and briefly Baylor) and then everyone else.

Didn't expect to drop lower but I also didn't expect to watch such bad D and O and bad attitudes from our guards. Seems they need to take a leaf out of Jackie, Bri and Jess s book as they were the only ones who showed any class.