Top 25 talk

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Yep... Katahdin several times, canoed the lakes of the Allagash, white watered the Kennebec, and nothing beats Down East and Bar Harbor... but only to visit! :-)

The entire state is the bigger than the rest of the states in New England... combined!

If back-to-back 14 loss Top 25 scoreboards are any sign... the Top 10 will NOT be unscathed!

Considering #1 plays #3, I'm nominating this for post of the year! 

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I will be here all season!

[Hugenerd]

If back-to-back 14 loss Top 25 scoreboards are any sign... the Top 10 will NOT be unscathed!

Considering #1 plays #3, I'm nominating this for post of the year! 

I wonder what will happen it both teams hold home court?  They play eachother twice in 9 days. If UR wins this weekend do they go to #1?  And then if WashU wins 9 days later, do they flip flop again?

Should be interesting.

[Mr. Ypsi]

If back-to-back 14 loss Top 25 scoreboards are any sign... the Top 10 will NOT be unscathed!

Considering #1 plays #3, I'm nominating this for post of the year! 

I wonder what will happen it both teams hold home court?  They play eachother twice in 9 days. If UR wins this weekend do they go to #1?  And then if WashU wins 9 days later, do they flip flop again?

Should be interesting.

Interesting speculation, but unless #2 stumbles (not to mention #4 and #5), I can't see either as #1 after a split.

[Ralph Turner]

Dave, I've climbed Mt. Katahdin several times, and canoed the West Branch of the Penobscot, then up to Lake Caucomogomoc on my honeymoon (30+ years ago), but have otherwise not seen 'northern' Maine.  Do I recall correctly that "The County" is larger than any of the other New England states?  Distances there may not impress Ralph, but they don't have to bus in a Maine January!

I have been to Maine once...a medical meeting one summer on the Colby campus, and had a lobster dinner on Golden Pond.

Distances in Maine do impress me, and depress me, too!

So when Maine-Fort Kent joins the NCAA, will they be a travel partner?

Why Sul Ross State's nearest travel partner (Howard Payne) is 330 miles away!

One other thing about Maine...

You have Mexico, Peru, China, Stockholm, New Sweden, Lisbon, Moscow and Denmark, Maine.

South Paris is south of Paris, but West Paris is more north of Paris than westerly!

West Surplus, Maine, is southeast of North Surplus, Maine!

Limington is north of South Limington, but almost due west of North Limington!

North Berwick is east of Berwick, and South Berwick is more like southwest of North Berwick and southeast of Berwick!

East Brownfield is north of Brownfield!

You go due south of North Fryeberg to get to West Fryeberg!

Lovell in south of Center Lovell, of course, which is south of North Lovell, and you go thru Number Four, Maine, on route 5 to get to North Lovell! 

Let's talk about the Rumfords.  You have Rumford, South Rumford, Rumford, Center, Rumford Corner and Rumford Point!  I could not find a Rumford Peachtree Rd.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Ralph - curious... how are you on Colby's campus but having a dinner at a New Hampshire lake? Because, I believe Golden Pond was filmed at a lake in New Hampshire. Past it every summer on my way to summer camp... in New Hampshire.

But... ready for this? My town in Maine is "Woodland" located near "Calais", which is named after the french city, but said like what working men have on their hands! A while back, while getting ready to install the state-wide 911 system (which hasn't been installed), the town was forced to change its name to its actual legal name - "Baileyville" - because there was another "Woodland" in "the county". But that town was barely on the map and didn't have a post office. We were on the map and did have a post office... but we had to change our name. Maine is BACKWARDS.

As for Fort Kent... can you have a travel partner if you are them or PI. They may be close in distance, but those trips will be tough!

[Ralph Turner]

I was given the understanding that the lake outside of Waterville was the lake where the movie Golden Pond was filmed.

Thanks for the clarification!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Ralph, in that case... I have a bridge to sell you!

[David Collinge]

There have been 133 men's polls in D3hoops.com's history, which means that there have been 3,325 Top 25 slots altogether (133 * 25).  Of those, ten have been awarded to teams from Maine.  Ten out of 3,325, or three-tenths of one percent.  A bit less than two-tenths of one percent of all vote-points ever cast were accorded to Down Easters.

Just thought you might like to know.

Of course, Maine has produced two of the more dominant women's programs during the D3hoops.com era.  And there's lots of tables, no waiting, in the women's Top 25 room.

[LogShow]

I thought this might be interesting to figure out...

who has accumulated the most total points in history of the poll?

How about the the past 5 year?

[David Collinge]

I thought this might be interesting to figure out...

who has accumulated the most total points in history of the poll?

How about the the past 5 year?

The answer to the first question should be obvious to anyone who pays more than cursory attention to the men's Top 25 (and it's even more obvious on the women's side.)  The second one is perhaps a little less obvious.  Let's see who can provide the correct answers first.  For purposes of this contest, we'll define "past 5 year" as since the beginning of the 2003-04 season.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'd guess Wooster for the most ever.  They've been ranked in every poll, right?


The past five years: I'll guess Amherst or Stevens Point.

[David Collinge]

The past five years: I'll guess Amherst or Stevens Point.

One guess to a customer.  Ya pays yer money, ya gits yer cherce.

[kiltedbryan]

I'd guess Wooster for the most ever.  They've been ranked in every poll, right?

Wooster's received votes in every poll, but hasn't been ranked every time.

Women's most ever should be Wash. U, I would think.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I'll try:

All-time, Wooster for the men, WashU for the women.

Last 5 years, Amherst for the men, Hope for the women.

[David Collinge]

I'll try:

All-time, Wooster for the men, WashU for the women.

Last 5 years, Amherst for the men, Hope for the women.

I wasn't really thinking of the women as part of this contest (just threw that comment in as an aside), but since you want to go that way...

wrong.