Top 25 talk

[Gregory Sager]

Someone on the UAA board said this was Case Western's first ever poll vote.  Is Sager around to verify that?

David Collinge is our resident historian on poll voting, not me.

[Pat Coleman]

Someone on the UAA board said this was Case Western's first ever poll vote.  Is Sager around to verify that?

This is not true. I don't know if this is the overall list but here are a few polls in which Case received a vote -- and it's not all ancient history, either.

http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2010-11/preseason
http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2007-08/week4
http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2007-08/week3

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Someone on the UAA board said this was Case Western's first ever poll vote.  Is Sager around to verify that?

David Collinge is our resident historian on poll voting, not me.

I thought you might be knowledgable enough in UAA history to know.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Someone on the UAA board said this was Case Western's first ever poll vote.  Is Sager around to verify that?

This is not true. I don't know if this is the overall list but here are a few polls in which Case received a vote -- and it's not all ancient history, either.

http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2010-11/preseason
http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2007-08/week4
http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2007-08/week3

So, we're guessing they've never received two votes at the same time?

[Pat Coleman]

It's possible. But only a few of the years of polls are in a database I can search.

[y_jack_lok]

Sorry... I grabbed the wrong link: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2015/01/12/daves-top-25-ballot-week-6-2/

And Case Western did receive a vote in the overall poll.

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing that. As an ODAC watcher (and R-MC alum) I was curious to see where you had R-MC and VWC. Not that I know anywhere near as much as you do, but my observations are that you have both teams ranked a little high and while I agree that R-MC might merit a slightly higher ranking than VWC, I'd say separating them six spots might be too wide a spread.

Again, thanks for sharing.

[David Collinge]

It's possible. But only a few of the years of polls are in a database I can search.

And unfortunately my databases died along with my old laptop.

[Darryl Nester]

Just a heads up that this week's mid-week HTF update will be late (or I might skip it altogether). Tomorrow at 3:30am, I'll be leaving to catch a plane to Washington, DC. I suppose I could post it before I leave,  but I think I might have other things on my mind ....

(If anyone else is going to be at the NCAA convention, maybe we can meet up.)

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

I will be there, Darryl.

[Ralph Turner]

It's possible. But only a few of the years of polls are in a database I can search.

And unfortunately my databases died along with my old laptop.

Maybe we can "crowd fund" to have the CIA retrieve the data.

It is vital to national security for D3Nation.

[KnightSlappy]

It's possible. But only a few of the years of polls are in a database I can search.

And unfortunately my databases died along with my old laptop.

I started using Dropbox a couple years back for (partially) this reason. All of my D3 spreadsheets (of which there are many) are now backed up to the proverbial cloud. (And accessible on any computer.)

[booyakasha]

Anybody notice anything interesting about this link to F&M's schedule on d3hoops???

http://d3hoops.com/teams/Franklin_and_Marshall/men/2014-15/index

[Pat Coleman]

Anybody notice anything interesting about this link to F&M's schedule on d3hoops???

http://d3hoops.com/teams/Franklin_and_Marshall/men/2014-15/index

Like many schools who have PrestoSports websites, F&M posts playoff games as TBA. That isn't particularly unusual.

[booyakasha]

Ahhh gotcha, I checked a couple other schools and didn't see it so I figured it was only on F&M.

[Pat Coleman]

I don't know about the current season but Hampden-Sydney and Hardin-Simmons have definitely done it, along with schools not created from hyphenating words beginning with H and words beginning with S. (Although admittedly, usually I hide them from our site. I just didn't catch this one until you mentioned it.)