Top 25 talk

[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.

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.

Hopefully not on all four!   Are you willing to be more specific?

[ChicagoHopeNut]

Last 5 Years:
Women: DePauw
Men: UWSP

[kiltedbryan]

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.

Hopefully not on all four!   Are you willing to be more specific?

Can't be wrong on all four, Ypsi.  (Unless DC was pulling our leg earlier this year.)

In a comment David made on a "News & Notes" blog for week 3 of this season, he noted the top 5 all time vote getters for both men and women. (Sorry David if I'm stealing your thunder...but I knew I had read this somewhere.)  Gaps are large enough that this season's polls probably haven't changed much in this ranking.

Don't know about the last five years though.

Men (127 polls):
1. Wooster 55,717
2. UW-Stevens Point 46,925
3. Amherst 40,213
4. Hampden-Sydney 36,698
5. Wittenberg 30,301

Women (128 polls):
1. Washington U. 62,516
2. Scranton 52,965
3. Bowdoin 51,152
4. Southern Maine 43,284
5. Hope 40,698

[David Collinge]

I had forgotten I'd published that.  While waiting to see one post with all four correct answers in it, I'll suggest that it's difficult to close gaps of 9,000 and 10,000 points, respectively, in 6 weeks when you can't get more that 625 points in any one week.  You might want to concentrate your guessing skills on the "last 5 years" part. 

Winner is the first post with all four correct answers.

As for being more specific, I can't imagine a bigger hint than this one:

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.

[ChicagoHopeNut]

All Time:
Men: Wooster
Women: Wash U.

Last 5 Years:
Men: UWSP
Women: Southern Maine (Yes, I changed my guess for women from like 15 minutes ago, I'm fickle)

[David Collinge]

Sorry.  If it's any consolation, your change of heart took you in the right direction, just not far enough. 

[ChicagoHopeNut]

Sorry.  If it's any consolation, your change of heart took you in the right direction, just not far enough. 

Bummer! I think have 3 out of 4 and now how I would change the fourth but I'll wait awhile to propose that so I don't take all the guesses.

[David Collinge]

I think have 3 out of 4 [...]

For the record, I neither confirm nor deny this supposition.

[ChicagoHopeNut]

I have to leave my computer for the next few hours so I am taking my final stab at this based on my previous, unconfirmed, supposition.

All Time:
Men: Wooster
Women: Wash U

Last 5 Years:
Men: Amherst
Women: Southern Maine

[David Collinge]

The contest is still open. 

[Mr. Ypsi]

Amherst and Bowdoin?  (Wooster and WashU already confirmed for all-time.)

[David Collinge]

Amherst and Bowdoin?  (Wooster and WashU already confirmed for all-time.)

The contest is now closed.    Congratulations, Chuck!

Men, all-time:
1. Wooster 56,549
2. Stevens Point 49,529
3. Amherst 43,518
4. Hampden-Sydney 36,698
5. Wash. U. 30,994

Men, since 2003-04 preseason:
1. Amherst 36,983
2. Wooster 34,365
3. Stevens Point 30,203
4. Wittenberg 21,504
5. Puget Sound 21,192

Women, all-time:
1. Wash U. 62,635
2. Scranton 52,987
3. Bowdoin 51,153
4. Southern Maine 44,945
5. Hope 44,343

Women, since 2003-04 preseason:
1. Bowdoin 36,651
2. Southern Maine 34,725
3. Scranton 31,252
4. Messiah 27,284
5. Wash. U. 25,214

[Mr. Ypsi]

Thanks for the hint!  (And thanks for eliminating Southern Maine - that left a coin-flip betwen Scranton and Bowdoin.)  Out of curiosity, how bad was my initial 5-year women's guess of Hope?  (Please tell me they were #6, not #13! )

[David Collinge]

Thanks for the hint!  (And thanks for eliminating Southern Maine - that left a coin-flip betwen Scranton and Bowdoin.)  Out of curiosity, how bad was my initial 5-year women's guess of Hope?  (Please tell me they were #6, not #13! )

6th, and DCHopeNut's guess, DePauw, is 7th.

[LogShow]

Pretty interesting results...no surpirse that Wooster, Amherst, and Point are on both lists.

Looks like Wash U takes the prize for most all-time points Men & Women combined