This was expected though. I honestly don't see us being ranked this year unless we beat KU (barring bad losses). I think we'll be on the outside looking in all year, but that's good - this is an improvement from last year, which was an improvement from the prior year, which was better than the year before, etc.
Rankings mean jack ****. I'm a big Duke fan as well, as you can tell by the moniker, and on the Duke sites, everyone gets all happy about how many weeks at #1...honestly, who cares? OOC schedule, conference schedule - it's all preseason if you get to make it to the Big Dance. The Buffs have a great chance to make it to field, and if they do, who cares if we never got ranked. Get to 9-7 or 10-6 and win two or one, respectively, conference tournament games...we're in. That's all that matters. The polls only help publicity and advertising.