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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:


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

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How can O&B Hue participate?
Can we?
Orange & Blue Hue http://www.orangeandbluehue.com

by Gatorpilot on Nov 15, 2007 2:53 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Absolutely ...
Contact Gabby at March to Madness.  You can find his email here.

Just mail him your blog details and tell him you want to participate.  He just added another blog to the list of participants 10 minutes ago.

by Truzenzuzex on Nov 15, 2007 3:14 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Garner-Webb?
Two blogs had Garner-Webb as the #25 team.  Is that a kick in the teeth or what?  I didn't see Mercer in there anywhere.

by senowen on Nov 15, 2007 3:33 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Heh ...
we had a bit of back-and-forth about that in the discussion round.  I think it was more a nod to the upset (kind of like Spurrier's nod to Duke every year in the first coach's poll) than it was a serious assertion that G-W belonged in the top 25.

In a way, that is a compliment to Kentucky.  Just not the kind I want to see ... :-)

by Truzenzuzex on Nov 15, 2007 3:40 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

It shows respect
toward Kentucky in that some thought GW is a good team. They made Kentucky look bad. Same thing happened with Appalachian. They even changed the rules to allow them to get votes in the AP poll. We will find out tonight if GW is all that. If they beat UConn then they will stay there. Even if they play a tight game they might stay ranked. Davidson moved up since they only lost to UNC by 4. You are right about Mercer though. These early polls don't mean much. Was Mercer/USC even on TV? A lot of it is a media popularity contest.

by cthom on Nov 15, 2007 4:30 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Gardner-Webb

That's right - we voted for GW as a symbolic nod to the little guys who don't get much respect in the CBB world.  Exactly like the App St votes in the football poll this year.  Needless to say, though, after tonight's loss, they'll be dropping out of our next ballot.

RTC

Best Regards. RTC http://rushthecourt.wordpress.com

by rushthecourt on Nov 16, 2007 2:41 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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