After the latest AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll was released on Monday, Ole Miss Rebels coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin panned the outlet’s national rankings.
‘This is a joke,’ McPhee-McCuin shared on X in a quote tweet of the AP’s rankings. ‘And if the voters [are] not going to do their jobs, we don’t need [an] AP poll! Had we lost two games in a row, we’d be fighting to stay in, or we’d be out!’
‘It’s not fair to my kids. Just do right! I can’t get behind people that don’t do their jobs. The bias is unfair!’, she later tweeted. ‘And this is no shot at anyone but the voters that didn’t do their jobs! This week, we lost to Texas by [three] on the road. Beat [No. 5] Oklahoma on the road and [won] a lot vs [Mississippi] State at home. You [move] us up 2 spots? I’m tired of the disrespect!’
McPhee-McCuin isn’t the only SEC coach voicing their frustration over the last several days.
On Sunday, Texas head coach Vic Schaefer said the SEC had a ‘vendetta’ against the Longhorns after his team fell, 70-65, to LSU. ‘Not only have we started in the league, and I get to play South Carolina twice last year, this year, I get LSU twice,’ said Schaefer. ‘I have to play South Carolina on the road this year, as well as LSU. I get them back-to-back in the same week. Now, make that make sense.’
The Rebels coach eventually chose to move on from sharing her displeasure with a final tweet.
‘OK, let me redirect my energy back to things I can control! Which is this week off!’ she said.