Posters' Poll

[KnightSlappy]

I'm curious about Wheaton.  You can't totally ignore their three losses when Raymond was out (or sub-par), but now that he's healthy again they are back to destroying good teams.  While I can't in good conscience vote them there now, it would not at all surprise me if they finish the season back at #1.

The most recent SOS numbers (http://d3hoops.com/salem/09/owp.htm) show Wheaton at #10 and these numbers don't include wins (double-digit) against Calvin and Ohio Wesleyan.  Wheaton has the same record as Point does, but the Wheaton team that gathered the 3 loses is different than the Wheaton team that is playing now.  A healthy Raymond makes the Thunder a Top 2 or 3 team.  It may be near impossible to tell the exact order of the teams at the top and I think the points will reflect this.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Five ballots already in (including a prior year voter who had not voted yet this year) - I have high hopes for a new 2009 record turnout.

[magicman]

Mine is in.

[smedindy]

In!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Working on it now; in soon!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

This week sucked.  I was able to knock a ton of teams off my "to watch" list, which will make the rest of the season a lot easier to follow.

However, after my top seven (in alphabetical order: Platteville, Puget Sound, St. Thomas, Stevens Point, WashU, Wheaton, Whitewater), I'm not sure there's another team that's worthy of the Top 15.

I don't know that there's much difference on my poll between #8 and #25.  It's a huge free for all in the middle, which may mean a really good tournament this year.

One thing, upon going back and looking at everyone's level of play for the whole season, I think we might be underestimating the ODAC teams (RMC and Guilford) a little.

[Ralph Turner]

This week sucked.  I was able to knock a ton of teams off my "to watch" list, which will make the rest of the season a lot easier to follow.

However, after my top seven (in alphabetical order: Platteville, Puget Sound, St. Thomas, Stevens Point, WashU, Wheaton, Whitewater), I'm not sure there's another team that's worthy of the Top 15.

I don't know that there's much difference on my poll between #8 and #25.  It's a huge free for all in the middle, which may mean a really good tournament this year.

One thing, upon going back and looking at everyone's level of play for the whole season, I think we might be underestimating the ODAC teams (RMC and Guilford) a little.

Yeah, if their name doesn't start with a "P", an "S" or a "W", they ain't worth... 

[Mr. Ypsi]

This week sucked.  I was able to knock a ton of teams off my "to watch" list, which will make the rest of the season a lot easier to follow.

However, after my top seven (in alphabetical order: Platteville, Puget Sound, St. Thomas, Stevens Point, WashU, Wheaton, Whitewater), I'm not sure there's another team that's worthy of the Top 15.

I don't know that there's much difference on my poll between #8 and #25.  It's a huge free for all in the middle, which may mean a really good tournament this year.

One thing, upon going back and looking at everyone's level of play for the whole season, I think we might be underestimating the ODAC teams (RMC and Guilford) a little.

Yeah, if their name doesn't start with a "P", an "S" or a "W", they ain't worth... 

Works even better if you just refer to St. Thomas as 'that undefeated team from St. Paul'.

[Mr. Ypsi]

We've now tied our season high with nine ballots.  If sac comes through, we'll set a new season record.  Anyone else wanna join in?

[sac]

I know I promised but difficult circumstances have come up and I won't be able to do one this week.  Sorry.

[Mr. Ypsi]

POSTERS' POLL, thru games of 2-15-09:

1.  Wash U        219 (1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,5)
2.  St. Thomas   213 (1,1,1,2,2,2,2,4,6)
3.  UWW            209 (2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3)
4.  UWSP           196 (2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6)
5.  UPS              182 (4,4,4,5,6,7,7,7,8)
6.  UWP             180 (4,5,6,6,6,6,7,7,7)
7.  Wheaton      171 (4,4,5,5,8,9,9,9,10)
8.  Ithaca           159 (5,5,7,7,8,8,8,10,17)
9.  R. Stockton   150 (7,8,9,9,9,10,10,11,11)
10 Buena V        149 (6,8,8,9,10,10,11,11,12)
11 Capital          127 (10,11,11,12,12,12,13,13,13)
12 Trinity TX       123 (9,9,12,12,13,13,13,14,16)
13 Elms              107 (10,10,11,11,11,12,19,20,23)
14 F & M             103 (13,13,14,14,14,14,14,16,18)
15 Middlebury      93 (12,14,15,15,15,16,18,18,18)
t16 Elmhurst        84 (8,15,16,17,17,18,19,20,20)
t16 JCU                84 (12,14,15,16,16,17,18,19,23)
18 TX Dallas        61 (13,15,16,20,21,21,21,22,24)
19 RIC                 53 (15,17,17,19,21,22,23,23,24
20 UMD               51 (15,16,17,19,20,20,24,-,-)
t21 Centre          48 (16,17,17,19,21,22,22,-,-)
t21 Guilford         48 (18,18,19,20,21,22,22,23,23)
23 Augie              34 (14,19,21,21,22,25,-,-,-)
24 Amherst          19 (15,19,25,------)
25 CMU                17 (20,22,23,24,24,---)

26 Randy Mac       15 (18,20,25)
27 Whitworth       10 (22,23,24,25)
28 St. Lawrence     7 (21,24)
29 St. Norbert        4 (23,25)
30 NCC                  3 (24,25)
t31 Chapman          2 (24)
t31 WPI                 2 (25,25)
33 DePauw            1

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

For the first time this season, I was not the only person to vote for any of these schools.  Now, I'm the outlier on a number of them, but not as many as I have been traditionally.

[Mr. Ypsi]

For the first time this season, I was not the only person to vote for any of these schools.  Now, I'm the outlier on a number of them, but not as many as I have been traditionally.

True on all points.  I was amazed that with nine voters, we were only eight teams over the minimum (pretty sure that's a record in the four years I've done the poll).

Gah!  We're all starting to think alike!

[smedindy]

I think there's a stratum of teams that are in consideration - the fact that 20 teams all received some top 25 consideration says to me that we know who the worthy are - it's just ranking them that's the fun (?) part (!)

It seems we all tend to agree on UW-W and Capital!

[pbrooks3]

I've gone ahead with turning in a top 25 for week 11.