Basketball Blogpoll -- Week 1

Its time for the first week's blogpoll.  This poll is being run by March to Madness, and right now we have eleven total participants in the poll.  Other participating blogs besides MTM and ASOB are:

• NCAA Hoops Today
• SEC Hoops: The Good, The Bad, and the Dirty
• March Madness All Season
• Rush The Court
• College Hoops Heaven
• Tar Heel Mania
• Plissken at the Buzzer
• A Pudge Is A Sandwich
• Storming the Floor

If you've never visited these great college basketball blogs, be sure to do so.

Below, you will find the final aggregated tally.  To get a look at everyone's ballot, you can go to this link for the public spreadsheet.

Keep in mind that this is just week one, and every voter is looking at things a little differently.  There is no well-defined system for evaluating who goes where, everyone has their own method to madness.

2007 - 08 Week One Blogpoll
Average vote	Rank last week	Rank This Week	School (1st place votes)	Conf.	Direction	Delta
1.64	1	1	Memphis (6)	Cusa	-	-
2.64	3	2	North Carolina (2)	Acc		1
2.82	2	3	UCLA (2)	Pac10		1
4.27	4	4	Kansas	Big12	-	-
5.27	5	5	Georgetown	Bige	-	-
5.73	6	6	Tennessee (1)	Sec	-	-
6.64	7	7	Louisville	Bige	-	-
10.36	9	8	Washington St.	Pac10		1
10.45	11	9	Oregon	Pac10		2
10.73	12	10	Indiana	Big10		2
11.82	14	11	Duke	Acc		3
13.27	10	12	Marquette	Bige		2
14.64	8	13	Michigan St.	Big10		5
15.45	13	14	Texas	Big12		1
17.45	16	15	Gonzaga	Wcc		1
18.64	18	16	Stanford	Pac10		2
19.09	17	17	Arkansas	Sec	-	-
20.27	19	18	Texas A&M	Big12		1
20.55	20	19	Arizona	Pac10		1
21.00	22	20	Davidson	South		2
21.18	24	21	VA Commonwealth	Coln		3
21.45	21	22	Butler	Horiz		1
21.82		23	N.C. St.	Acc		NPR
22.45		24	Southern Ill.	Mvc		NPR
22.55	23	25	Mississippi St.	Sec		2

NPR = Not previously ranked
New in poll:  N.C. State, Southern Illinois
Dropped out:  Kentucky, Southern Cal

Comments welcome.

A little additional analyltics yields the following:

# of schools by conference:

• ACC:  3
• Big 10:   2
• Big 12:   3
• Big East:  3
• Colonial:  1
• Horizon:  1
• MVC:  1
• Pac 10:  5
• SEC:  3
• Southern:  1
• WCC:  1

Average ranking by conference this week:

• ACC:  12
• Big 10:   11.5
• Big 12:   12
• Big East:  8
• Colonial:  21
• Horizon:  22
• MVC:  24
• Pac 10:  11
• SEC:  16
• Southern:  20
• WCC:  15