Until this week, no Football Bowl Subdivision team had gone as long as North Texas without appearing in The Associated Press poll. The Mean Green scoring machine was No. 22 after the votes were counted,

A lot of times in basketball, you don’t know early in the season your problems. You don’t know your real problems, and we have real problems. I don’t care where we’re ranked; we have real problems. And I think that allows us to go back in practice,

In terms of on/off stats, Battle is tops, with Toronto 19 points per 100 possessions better with the elite shooter on the floor than off. Ingram’s next at +9.7, Barnes is +9.4, and then there’s a big drop to Dick at +2.8 and Barrett and Shead at +2.7 each.

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TCU won’t really be tested again until January and it may be premature to put a team this new in the top 10. But this type of early-season success is becoming commonplace in Fort Worth. With a point guard who has led elite teams before and can optimize surrounding talent, I believe in their upside.