Posters' Poll

[Ralph Turner]

Mine are in. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Hopefully I can get to it by 1 or 2.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Top 25 Schedule and Scores, Jan. 29-Feb. 4 (FINAL):

#   1   Amherst (23-0) won at Rhode Island Coll. 62-48, def. Conn. College 91-49, and def. Wesleyan 81-56
#   2   Wooster (18-3) def. Allegheny 109-71 and lost to #11 Wittenberg 74-71
#   3   UW-Stevens Point (18-2) def. UW-Eau Claire 90-61 and won at #22 UW-La Crosse 68-65
#   4   Mississippi College (18-2) lost at LeTourneau 64-62 and won at East Texas Baptist 61-32
#   5   UW-Oshkosh (18-4) lost to #22 UW-La Crosse 73-62 and def. UW-Stout 79-61
#   6   St. Thomas (19-2) def. Carleton 51-41 and def. Bethel 89-67
#   7   Washington U. (16-3) lost at #25 NYU 73-57 and lost at Brandeis 81-75 (3 OT)
#   8   Virginia Wesleyan (19-3) def. Bridgewater (VA) 85-46, won at Roanoke 62-48, and won at Washington and Lee 61-49
#   9   Hope (17-2) won at Olivet 79-57 and had their game at Albion postponed until Monday
#   10   Augustana (17-4) won at North Park 71-56 and lost at #17 Carthage 66-56
#   11   Wittenberg (18-3) def. Earlham 87-40 and won at #2 Wooster 74-71
#   12   Elmhurst (16-4) lost to Millikin 89-85 and won at Illinois Wesleyan 84-69
#   13   Whitworth (19-2) def. Linfield 71-58 and def. George Fox 90-64
#   14   Ohio Northern (16-5) won at Otterbein 66-63 (OT) and lost to John Carroll 79-67
#   15   Worcester Polytech (17-2) def. Clark 73-52 and lost at Babson 79-69
#   16   Aurora (19-2) lost at Wisconsin Lutheran 87-82, def. Maranatha Baptist 100-49, and def. Marian 81-53
#   17   Carthage (14-6) lost at Wheaton (IL) 71-67 and def. #10 Augustana 66-56
#   18   Occidental (14-4) def. Whittier 82-60 and won at Cal Tech 108-31
#   19   Chicago (16-4) won at Brandeis 74-69 and lost at #25 NYU 79-76
#   20   Johns Hopkins (19-2) won at Swarthmore 63-59 and won at Haverford 72-68 (2 OT)
#   21   Puget Sound (16-4) def. Pacific Lutheran 89-86 and def. Pacific 85-79
#   22   UW-La Crosse (14-7) won at #5 UW-Oshkosh 73-62 and lost to #3 UW-Stevens Point 68-65
#   23   Bates (17-4) lost at Williams 67-54 and won at Middlebury 81-48
#   24   Guilford (16-3) won at Washington and Lee 62-61 and won at Lynchburg 95-70
#   25   NYU (16-4) def. #7 Washington U. 73-57 and def. #19 Chicago 79-76

Collectively, 38-14 (.731) for the week.

[smedindy]

Wow. This was hard. I considered 39 teams in all. Yikes!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

It's in.  I don't like it, but it's done.

I added teams to my list of possibles, even when I knew they weren't going to get on just because they were leading a conference or had a stand-out record in respect to their peers, etc and ended up with an extra 25.  I'm sure some of the middle or lower teams from the power conferences would be in this mix somewhere, I thought it was an odd coincidence that I ended up with a "Second 25."  Anyway, for kicks, I thought I'd throw it out here.  These haven't been fully analyzed, but a rough ranking:

NJCU, Utica, Lincoln, Bates, Centre, Occidental, Captial, RIC, Ramapo, Stevens, Hopkins, Keene State, Loras, Lake Erie, St. John's, Brockport State, Bluffton, Grinnell, Messiah, Maryville, Lewis & Clark, Ohio Wesleyan, Salem State, WPI, Husson

[Greek Tragedy]

done

[Mr. Ypsi]

Only six ballots in so far.  35 teams have been mentioned, but we seem to so far have a fairly clear top '26'.

sac won't be submitting 'til after the make-up game by Hope ('hope'fully he won't be influenced by what they do tonite!), so the balloting will remain open until 10:30-11.

[John Gleich]

Getting mine in (late as usual)...  I didn't file for an extension... do you think I'll get auditted?

I'll have mine in soon!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Getting mine in (late as usual)...  I didn't file for an extension... do you think I'll get auditted?

I'll have mine in soon!

I always audit - fortunately I have (so far) never prosecuted!

[sac]

I hate my poll

[Hoaf]

I'm in. Hopefully, you guys don't think I'll have an eastern bias. My poll was very fair. I look forward to seeing the results.

[Mr. Ypsi]

POSTERS' POLL, thru games of Feb 4, 2007:

1.  Amherst  224 (8-1s and a 2)
2.  UWSP   217 (8-2s and a 1)
3.  Wooster  197 (3,3,3,3,4,4,5,6,6)
4.  St. Thomas  191 (3,3,3,4,4,4,5,6,11)
5.  Va. Wes.  190 (4,4,4,5,5,5,5,6,6)
6.  Miss. Col.  170 (4,6,6,7,8,8,8,8,9)
7.  Hope   167 (3,3,5,5,6,7,7,10,21)
8.  Wittenberg  159 (5,7,7,8,8,8,9,11,13)
9.  UW-Osh.   153 (7,7,7,9,9,9,9,10,14)
10 Augustana  141 (6,7,9,10,10,11,11,14,15)
11 Whitworth  135 (8,8,9,10,10,10,11,11,12)
12 Wash. U.   113 (10,11,12,13,13,14,15,16,17)
13 Elmhurst   98 (9,11,12,12,12,13,16,25,-)
14 Puget Sound  82 (13,13,15,15,15,16,19,20,-)
15 Carthage   73 (14,14,14,17,18,18,19,21,-)
16 NYU     72 (12,16,16,17,18,18,18,21,-)
17 Occidental  67 (11,13,14,16,17,18,-,-,-)
18 Johns Hopkins  65 (10,12,15,17,20,23,23,23,-)
19 Ohio Northern  56 (13,14,16,17,20,22,25,25,-)
20 Aurora   47 (13,16,20,20,22,22,24,24,-)
21 UW-LaX  46 (14,15,19,20,21,22,25,-,-)
22 Chicago  45 (17,17,18,19,19,21,-,-,-)
23 Guilford  44 (18,19,20,21,22,22,22,23,23)
24 WPI     41 (15,18,19,21,21,22,25,-,-)
25 MHB     36 (12,15,20,23,24,-,-,-,-)

26 Wheaton  27 (12,21,23,24,24,25,-,-,-)

27 Lake Erie  12 (19,23,24 --)
28 Trinity CT  11 (16,25 --)
29 DePauw   9 (17 --)
30 Brandeis  7 (19 --)
31 Salem St.  6 (20 --)
t32 Utica    4 (23,25 --)
t32 Loras   4 (22 --)
t34 RIC      2 (24 --)
t34 Rochester  2 (24 --)
t36 JCU     1
t36 St. Lawrence  1

[Mr. Ypsi]

Some quick comments on the poll.

With 9 voters naming 25 teams, there are 225 votes cast.  210 of them went to just 26 schools.  For this week, at least, we seem to have a rough consensus on the top teams, we just differ on HOW top they are!

Everyone from #13 on down was left off at least one voter's ballot, EXCEPT #23 Guilford - everyone liked them, just no one liked them all that much!

We just don't seem to have any idea what to do with such teams as ONU, Oxy, UW-LaX (among a few others) - some quite high, others very low or left off entirely.  Elmhurst especially was pulled way below most of their votes by a couple skeptics (with Hope a close second).  Some others were much higher than most thought because of one or two 'champions' (JHU and MHB perhaps most dramatically).

On the other hand, I'm surprised at how closely we agreed on the place for double-loser WashU.  The UAA, WIAC, and CCIW alone made this a tough week to vote - thanks to all.

[Ralph Turner]

I'm in. Hopefully, you guys don't think I'll have an eastern bias. My poll was very fair. I look forward to seeing the results.

Glad to have you.   

Now we can speculate as to who voted:

10) JHU?
12) NYU?
15) WPI?
16) Trinity CT?
19) Brandeis?
20) Salem St?
23) Utica?
24) Rochester?
25) St Lawrence?

Thanks for joining us! 

[formerbant10]

I'll show one of my cards.  I had Trinity at 16.