Posters' Poll

[John Gleich]

I'm in.

[Ralph Turner]

I'm in.

Thanks Point! +1

[Mr. Ypsi]

Posters' Poll, thru games of Jan 21, 2007:

1.  UWSP 224 [8] (1-2)
2.  Amherst 215 [1] (1-4)
3.  Woo 207 (2-6)
4.  VaWes 193 (3-7)
5.  MissCol 192 (3-7)
6.  Whitworth 168 (4-10)
7.  WashU 158 (5-12)
8.  Elmhurst 151 (7-13)
9.  St. Thomas 142 (5-17)
10.  Hope 141 (5-12, 1NV)
11.  Puget Sound 132 (6-16)
t12  Augie 130 (8-14)
t12  UWOsh 130 (7-19)
14.  Witt 115 (10-17
15.  Aurora 92 (14-20)
t16  ONU 69 (15-19, 1NV)
t16  Oxy 69 (13-23, 2NV)
t16  WPI 69 (15-19, 1NV)
t19  Bates 46 (16-19, 3NV)
t19  Wheaton 46 (12-23, 2NV)
21.  Carthage 43 (18-21, 2NV)
22.  Johns Hopkins 33 (16-25, 2NV)
23.  NYU 24 (20-25, 1NV)
24.  Chicago 21 (14-24, 5NV)
t25  Trinity, CT 18 (18-24, 6NV)
t25  UWLaX 18 (21-25, 3NV

27. Keene St. 15 (4 votes: 20-25)
t28 MHB 13 (1 voter)
t28 RIC 13 (3 voters: 21-22)
30. Guilford 12 (5 voters: 20-25)
31. Ramapo 10 (1 voter)
32. Willie Pat 7 (2 voters: 21-24)
33. Scranton 5 (1 voter)
34. St. John's 3 (1 voter)
t35 Bald Wally 2 (1 voter)
t35 Brandeis 2 (1 voter)

An incredible number of ties (and near-ties) this week - imagine the power you could have had as the tenth voter!!

[sac]

Nice job Mr. Y.

I don't know why but looking at my ballot I left off Oxy by accident, sorry.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Glad to see my ballot is becoming more and more orthodox by the week.  Now if I can only get someone else to vote for MHB... c'mon guys they're doing really well.

[Ralph Turner]

Glad to see my ballot is becoming more and more orthodox by the week.  Now if I can only get someone else to vote for MHB... c'mon guys they're doing really well.

Hoops fan, respectfully, UMHB had trouble with Howard Payne in Brownwood on Saturday.  They have 10 conference remaining.  Six games are easily winnable. The 2 against Concordia-Austin, their travel partner, may give them trouble, if CUA gets hot.  UMHB doesn't have a "Top 25 test" until the last weekend of division play (15 & 17 Feb 07) when to go to McMurry and then to Hardin-Simmons with the #1 seed from the West Division on the line.  The ice storms messed their schedule so they play 3 games per week for the next 3 week and 10 games in 22 days.  With the travel requirements in the ASC, that is more than usual.  They will be 20-3 by the McMurry game, but will not have had a serious test since VWC in December.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Well.  We'll certainly know for sure what they're made of by the end of that run, huh?

[Ralph Turner]

Well.  We'll certainly know for sure what they're made of by the end of that run, huh?

Hoops, I will rank UMHB in the low 20's if they sweep the next 10 games.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

What about one loss?

[Ralph Turner]

What about one loss?

UMHB's IN-Region wins over Trinity TX, Souhthwestern and Ripon are not looking as significant as 3 weeks ago, and the loss to UT-Dallas is less lustrous, too.

I think that they need to sweep the ASC-West to be genuine.  Then I would tout them.

[Ralph Turner]

I am waiting on NYU to show me what they have over the next 2 weekends, for that matter.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

What about one loss?

UMHB's IN-Region wins over Trinity TX, Souhthwestern and Ripon are not looking as significant as 3 weeks ago, and the loss to UT-Dallas is less lustrous, too.

I think that they need to sweep the ASC-West to be genuine.  Then I would tout them.

That's true.  A lot of my initial confidence in them came from a schedule that is becoming less impressive as the season goes along.  I may have to make a major adjustment in the future, especially if they start to lose some games.  I reached that point with Wittenberg this week, as did, evidently, a number of voters in the real poll.

[Ralph Turner]

I ran my ballot past the "official" Top 25.  I missed on NYU in favor of UW-LaCrosse.  (I would take UW-LC over NYU in a game at the University of Chicago or any other neutral site.)  It appears that I was the outlier on NYU.

I appreciate your compiling this and giving us the range.  I can see the strength of the support that we represent.

I am looking forward to this next weekend.  We should get some more consensus.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I had La Crosse at 21 and NYU at 25.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I had NYU 24, LaX 25.  My 'unique' contibution this week was St. John's at 23.