Tennessee’s Rick Barnes blasts AP poll voters after getting crushed by unranked Florida

Tennessee just took its fifth loss of the season. It was a 91-67 beatdown at the hands of unranked Florida. Florida did not look like an unranked team on Saturday, and Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes spoke about AP poll voters about that fact after the game.

“It has baffled me all year where I don’t put anything in rankings. Florida has five losses, and I think four of them are to top 25 teams. They are defending National Champions. They played in Madison Square Garden against Connecticut, which everyone knows is a road game. They played Arizona in Las Vegas, which is basically a road game. That’s where people who get votes don’t really have an idea of who the best teams are,” Barnes said following the loss to the Gators, according to Isaac Edelman of FL Teams.

Tennessee came into the game ranked 21st in the nation according to the AP Poll. Meanwhile, Florida had just 11 points in voting, sitting in the other receiving votes category, and behind nine other teams in that unranked group…

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