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beknighted
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 Posted: 01/22/08 2:50 pm ::: USA Today poll out - MD and UNC flip |
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As do Baylor and Stanford, presumably because of the Oklahoma game, but who really knows?
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Just for kicks, I did a quick and dirty analysis of which conferences are getting the most points, and the results are as follows:
1. Big East 23.8% (8 teams with points, 7 in the top 25, 2 in the top 10)
2. ACC 18.9% (5 teams with points, 4 in the top 25, 3 in the top 10)
3. SEC 17.6% (6 teams with points, 4 in the top 25, 2 in the top 10)
4. Big XII 16.7% (9 teams with points, 4 in the top 25, 1 in the top 10)
5. Pac 10 11.5% (3 teams with points, 2 in the top 25, both in the top 10)
6. Big 10 3.0% (1 team with points and in the top 25, nobody in the top 10)
Together, these six conferences account for 91.4% of the points.
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PRballer
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| Posted: 01/22/08 4:02 pm ::: |
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| DePaul shouldn't be ranked.
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beknighted
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| Posted: 01/22/08 5:19 pm ::: |
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| PRballer wrote: |
| DePaul shouldn't be ranked. |
Not to defend DePaul (I was surprised to see them there), but I can't get myself too excited about any of the teams from 20-25 or about whether they should be there instead of any of the teams from 26-35.
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bballfan2005
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| Posted: 01/22/08 5:27 pm ::: |
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| PRballer wrote: |
| DePaul shouldn't be ranked. |
I don't think it matters much. It seems like the Big East and Big Twelve have undeserving teams ranked every season yet the ACC and SEC seem to put more teams into the NCAA Sweet 16 (which, IMO, is more important than a poll ranking) these days. The SEC sent four teams to the S16 last year (Ole Miss, Tennessee, LSU, Georgia). Same for the ACC (UNC, Duke, NC State, Florida State). By contrast, the Big East and Big Twelve sent a grand total of three teams to the Sweet 16--combined (UConn, Rutgers, Oklahoma).
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hoopfan24
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| Posted: 01/22/08 6:09 pm ::: Re: USA Today poll out - MD and UNC flip |
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| beknighted wrote: |
| As do Baylor and Stanford, presumably because of the Oklahoma game, but who really knows? |
not a fan of Baylor being ahead of Stanford considering Stanford pasted them by 24 pts.
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Toliver...Holy Cow!
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| Posted: 01/22/08 7:28 pm ::: |
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| Am I missing something? UVA beat Texas on a neutral court. Texas can barely get voted outside the Top 25 and UVA gets no votes? Did I just overlook something?
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bballfan2005
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3; Marquette (10-7) 2; Texas Tech (13-5) 2; Jacksonville (15-3) 1; Quinnipiac (15-2) 1; Texas-El Paso (14-2) 1.