Top 25 talk

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · November 29, 2006, 09:34:08 AM

Big win for Wooster; they are looking mighty dominant, although it will mean more if they can beat Witt by double digits.

hopefan · November 29, 2006, 01:31:42 PM

From the unexplainable - Despite having no votes in the preseason poll, Howard Payne garners 18 vote points after finishing the first week 0 - 3.

This must be a misprint or programming error somehow - is it possible that Transy should have been there instead, as they lost all votes from the first week despite 2 wins and a close loss to Wittenburg??? Curious........

Pat Coleman · November 29, 2006, 01:45:46 PM

Looks like someone meant Hope and picked the wrong team out of the dropdown menu. Grr....

David Collinge · November 29, 2006, 01:53:19 PM

Fortunately, 18 more vote-points for Hope doesn't change anything. Nice catch, hopefan.

smedindy · November 29, 2006, 03:00:07 PM

Wow...

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · November 29, 2006, 03:06:09 PM

I see its fixed already on the Top 25.

Greek Tragedy · November 29, 2006, 04:08:05 PM

Quote from: hopefan on November 29, 2006, 01:31:42 PM
From the unexplainable - Despite having no votes in the preseason poll, Howard Payne garners 18 vote points after finishing the first week 0 - 3.

Maybe they were just REALLY good losses.

Titan Q · November 29, 2006, 04:52:53 PM

Quote from: Pat Coleman on November 29, 2006, 01:45:46 PM
Looks like someone meant Hope and picked the wrong team out of the dropdown menu. Grr....

Gotta be careful with the ole drop down menu! When submitting my ballot just this week, I was attempting to vote for Washington U and before hitting "submit", realized I was about to slot Waynesburg #23!

John Gleich · November 29, 2006, 05:43:55 PM

Hey OS, you planning on doing a posters poll this year again? If so, are we gonna have nifty drop down boxes to screw our ballots up with too?! 8)

Mr. Ypsi · November 29, 2006, 05:50:51 PM

Quote from: PointSpecial on November 29, 2006, 05:43:55 PM
Hey OS, you planning on doing a posters poll this year again? If so, are we gonna have nifty drop down boxes to screw our ballots up with too?! 8)

I was the posters' poll guy, and yes, it will start in January (but no drop down boxes, sorry!)

I'll leave those sorts of electoral snafu's to Katherine Harris and Pat!

(Pat, please note the emoticons before banning me!

Bet you've never been linked with her before!

)

John Gleich · November 29, 2006, 07:40:49 PM

OH SHOOT! Sorry Ypsi, my severe apologies to you! Can't wait to see how everything shakes up in the next month... methinks that things will look much different then than they do now.

As long as our ballots don't have dimpled or hanging chads, then I think we'll be ok... Unless the #2 team calls for a recount, that is...

Mr. Ypsi · November 29, 2006, 09:45:54 PM

PS,

No harm, no foul!

I like that d3sports.com does a pre-season poll (and continues with the early weeks) - makes for good discussions. But any polls earlier than 8-10 games into the season are [IMHO] pure speculation.

I rather doubt that #2 will call for a recount (or that we will have a problem with hanging chads!) - no sane person is going to mistake our poll for Pat's gold standard of d3 polling! But it's fun!

In the early going it is looking like Wooster, not Va Wes, but fortunately I don't have to cast a ballot for another 5 weeks! (And I have much more time to figure out my beloved Titans - new coach, 8 of top 9 graduating, yet I STILL think they are a major threat in the post-season!)

John Gleich · November 29, 2006, 10:16:40 PM

I think IWU will get better as the season goes on. With a new coach, they're still figuring out things the way that Rose wants to do things, and with rather inexperienced players, they need to just play with each other to get used to the flow. The JV schedule is really a plus for these guys... they at least have played at college speed, or very close to it for a season or two behind last year's senior class, whereas at schools without the JV games, the underclassmen only see time if it's a blowout.

BTW, #9 Point knocks off #19 Oshkosh 89-76 (this is actually an upset... game on Oshkosh's floor and Oshy was picked ahead of Point in the WIAC preseason poll), and La Crosse (receiving 8 votes) beats #8 Whitewater by 3ish.

Titan Q · November 29, 2006, 10:27:57 PM

The CCIW has had a terrible week so far. In three losses, the CCIW team was probably the underdog:

Carthage 67 @ Carroll 75 (Mon)
#24 IWU 73 @ St. Xavier 75 (Tues)
Wheaton 77 @ Chicago 81 (tonight)

But last night, #14 North Central got drilled 85-69 by Aurora at home...and tonight #15 Augustana is losing by about 25 @ their Quad City rival St. Ambrose, an unranked NAIA II team.

Last year the CCIW had 4 teams good enough to get to Salem (IWU, North Central, Augustana, Elmhurst)...not sure there is one this year. It's early though.

As a fan of a "reloading" team that cannot get to 12-2 in the conference, I am all for the 2007 CCIW race being an ugly, knock-down/drag-out affair! IWU might be able to go 9-5 behind Zach Freeman, the Shirk Center, and a few good bounces. Who knows.

njlincolnlion · November 29, 2006, 11:41:57 PM

Lincoln defeats New Jersey City 92-84 after committing 28 turnovers! The Lions bench outscored the Gothic Knights reserves 44-17 before a crowd of over 1600.

The win gives Coach Yuille his 50th win with 12 losses as he begins his third season at the helm of his alma mater's cagers. Lincoln has scored 90 plus points in all four of the wins this season, and has a 19 game win streak at home.