Posters' Poll

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

But his assailant's idiot friends THINK he's in jail because Joel was a 'snitch'; Joel is now too terrified to go to school.)

You might consider purchasing each of them a standard English dictionary.  It seems awfully hard to be a snitch when you're a victim.  I'm pretty sure those two are mutually exclusive.

I pray everything works out.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Well, Joel IS in school, and there are plenty of grown-ups (and kids) who are 'watching his back', so we're optimistic.

One of his teachers is the lacrosse coach; Joel's older brother was the LaX leading scorer and captain last year.  I toyed with the idea of spreading the rumor that the entire LaX team had Joel's back - I suspect that would deter even 'idiots'!

Another ballot came in overnight, and formerbant promised above to get one in, so I'll probably get the poll out early this evening - still time for others!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Final Regular Season Posters' Poll:

1.  UWSP  175 (unanimous)

2.  Wooster  165 (2,2,2,2,2,3,4)
3.  Miss Col  157 (2,3,3,3,4,5,5)

4.  St Thomas  147 (3,3,4,5,6,7,7)
t5  Augie   146 (3,4,4,5,6,7,7)
t5  Amherst  146 (2,4,5,5,6,7,7)
7.  Va Wes  142 (4,5,6,6,6,6,7)

8.  Wash U  117 (8,8,9,9,9,10,12)

9.  Whitworth  104 (8,10,10,11,12,13,14)
10  Oshkosh  102 (8,8,9,12,14,14,15)
11  Chicago  98 (9,10,11,11,12,15,16)
12  Elmhurst  97 (8,9,10,10,13,13,22)
13  Hope    91 (9,10,11,11,14,16,20)
14  Aurora  90 (8,11,11,13,16,16,17)

15  Wittenberg  72 (12,12,14,15,15,16,-)

t16  Occidental  54 (15,17,17,18,18,18,25)
t16  Trinity CT   54 (14,15,16,17,19,21,-)
18  Guilford   49 (13,19,19,19,19,20,24)
19  UW-LaX  48 (13,14,15,17,23,-,-)

20  RIC    35 (17,17,18,21,22,-,-)
21  WPI    32 (16,19,20,21,24,24,-)
22  Centre  23 (19,20,21,22,25,-,-)
23  Wheaton  21 (13,18 --)
24  Brandeis  14 (12 --)
25  NYU    12 (20,20 --)

(t26) Capital  11 (22,22,24,25 --)
(t26) Loras   11 (18,23 --)
(t28) Lake Erie  10 (22,23,23 --)
(t28) UMHB    10 (21,21 --)
(30)  JHU    9 (18,25 --)
(31)  DePauw  8 (21,23 --)
(32)  JCU    7 (22,24,25 --)
(33)  Brockport  6 (20 --)
(t34) Carthage  3 (23 --)
(t34) Maryville  3 (23 --)
(t36) NCC    2 (24 --)
(t36) Salem St  2 (24 --)
(t38) Ramapo  1
(t38) Rochester  1

Note: every ballot had the same top 7!  I've also spaced to show other big gaps in the voting.

[Ralph Turner]

Mine is in, and it barely resembles my impressions before the tourney!

Thanks, Mr Ypsi!

[Mr. Ypsi]

I haven't received Ralph's yet, so this is NOT directed to him, nor is it an attempt to sway voters, but (if you vote on 'total body of work') I hope teams that didn't make the tourney, or were upset early, won't be totally forgotten!

There is obviously no rush on the final poll, but I hope to get it out by Tues or Wed.  ALL are invited, even those who were unable to participate in the previous couple of polls.

[Ralph Turner]

Now it is!   

Before I hit the send button, I went back to the poll to double-check it.

I think that there is an incredible amount of parity this year.

[formerbant10]

I should be able to get it out to you tomorrow.  Was in Chicago this weekend and barely made it back due to the US Airways debacle. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'll work on it now.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Mine's in.  I had this cabal of schools that didn't make the tourney from 12-15, so that kind of made it difficult to move people around.

Hopefully I adequately related the whole-body of work in light of their performance over the last couple of weeks.  I certainly believe I have the 25 best teams on the list.

[smedindy]

Oh, crap. Can I submit tomorrow??

[Ralph Turner]

Smed, Please do!

I think that the debate after the poll is worth the delay that one more ballot will give to the opinion of our collective votes.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Since there are so far only 3 ballots in, I sure hope for more than ONE more!  I'm not planning to get it out before Wednesday evening at the earliest, and if it means more votes I'll even extend that.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

You should email some people.  After three weeks off, it's easy to forget.

[smedindy]

I'm in! It wasn't easy, but I'm in...

[smedindy]

But the top 4 WAS easy!