Huskies 21st in both polls this week

Published 11:26 am Monday, February 23, 2009

This week’s college basketball rankings came out a little while ago, and Washington is 21st in both polls. That’s up a spot in the AP poll, and down three in the coaches poll.

The Huskies are a five seed in this week’s bracketology on ESPN.com, playing in Portland. This week’s bracketology was done a bit differently, as the NCAA and ESPN conducted a mock exercise to simulate picking a tournament field. The NCAA has done these type of exercises with media in recent years to give a better understanding as to how the field is picked.

Here’s an explanation of how things went down.