ESPN/USA Today MBB Poll

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By TDDance234
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-  October 30th, 2008, 9:11 am #205473
I blame George Bush.

By ALUmnus
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-  October 30th, 2008, 9:13 am #205476
TDDance234 wrote:I blame George Bush.
....therefore it's Dick Cheney's doing.

By JK37
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-  October 30th, 2008, 9:24 am #205481
7 Big East teams in Top 25, 9 total receiving votes. Best conference in country...AGAIN!

By ATrain
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-  October 30th, 2008, 10:09 am #205494
JK37 wrote:7 Big East teams in Top 25, 9 total receiving votes. Best conference in country...AGAIN!
Proportionally, its the same as the ACC...the Big East has 16 teams, the ACC 12. ACC has 4 in the top 25, and 7 total receiving votes.
PAC-10 has 6 teams total receiving votes.
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By PastorZack
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-  October 30th, 2008, 10:47 am #205508
Texas #8????? what are they smokin? they have abrams and james and that's it.....most games abrams can't hit the broad side of a barn.
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By Sly Fox
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-  October 30th, 2008, 10:52 am #205511
You can always pine away for Billy Clyde because the Ags aren't going to be contenders again anytime soon. Rick Barnes has built a program the now lives in the Top 15 and doesn't just visit once every half century like the boys in Collie Station.

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By blwall1416
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-  October 30th, 2008, 11:06 am #205517
Fumblerooskies wrote:HOW IN THE HECK CAN DUKE BE PRE-SEASON #5? I root for them and that's at least 10 spots too high.

http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings
Especially given how coach k has already thrown paulus under the bus.......& the season hasn't started, yet.

What I don't understand is one day there are articles & quotes about "poor us", expectations are too high, etc...articles about that program.......only to have articles on how great they are at every position, recruiting is awesome, & they are top 5, written the next week.

Which is it? 8)

By JK37
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-  October 30th, 2008, 11:43 am #205523
ATrain wrote:
JK37 wrote:7 Big East teams in Top 25, 9 total receiving votes. Best conference in country...AGAIN!
Proportionally, its the same as the ACC...the Big East has 16 teams, the ACC 12. ACC has 4 in the top 25, and 7 total receiving votes.
PAC-10 has 6 teams total receiving votes.
Proportionally, it's NOT the same.

BIG EAST: 7 out of 16 = 43.75% of teams in top 25
ACC: 4 out of 12 = 33.3% of teams in top 25

By LUconn
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:02 pm #205526
Plus, who the stink cares about proportionally?
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By ToTheLeft
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:04 pm #205528
People who think that preseason rankings actually mean anything, ESPECIALLY in basketball.
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By ToTheLeft
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:05 pm #205530
The average ranking of WCC teams is 11... that's pretty high. I think the WCC is pretty good!
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By Fumblerooskies
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:16 pm #205538
LUconn wrote:Plus, who the stink cares about proportionally?
Exactly...
...but the Obama Top 25 Poll spreads the wealth between ALL the conferences.
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By ToTheLeft
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:23 pm #205543
Fumblerooskies wrote:
LUconn wrote:Plus, who the stink cares about proportionally?
Exactly...
...but the Obama Top 25 Poll spreads the wealth between ALL the conferences.
"Well, NJIT doesn't have many votes, so let's take some from UNC and give it to them. Now that's change!"
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By adam42381
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:26 pm #205545
I bought Lindy's basketball preview mag a couple weeks ago and they have Duke at #4! What is everybody seeing that I'm not?

EDIT: I think they're solidly in the top 11-16 but top 5 is a huge stretch.
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By ToTheLeft
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:27 pm #205546
adam42381 wrote:I bought Lindy's basketball preview mag a couple weeks ago and they have Duke at #4! What is everybody seeing that I'm not?
Floor-slapping.

Lots and lots of quality floor-slapping.
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By adam42381
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:28 pm #205547
ToTheLeft wrote:Floor-slapping.

Lots and lots of quality floor-slapping.
True, they do a lot of that, which obviously shows heart and determination.
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By ToTheLeft
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-  October 30th, 2008, 12:29 pm #205548
The intimidation alone is good for a 10 to 15 point swing every game. Add in the refs working for them, and clearly God is on their side, and there's no way they can be beat!
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By pbow
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-  October 30th, 2008, 2:17 pm #205594
no wvu in the top 25, yet again :roll:

By ATrain
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-  October 30th, 2008, 2:33 pm #205599
pbow wrote:no wvu in the top 25, yet again :roll:
They made the mistake of putting their football team in the preseason top 25...they didn't want to do the same with their basketball team.
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By pbow
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-  October 30th, 2008, 2:50 pm #205601
ATrain wrote:
pbow wrote:no wvu in the top 25, yet again :roll:
They made the mistake of putting their football team in the preseason top 25...they didn't want to do the same with their basketball team.
nice one...I think we all know who's had the better football and basketball teams over the past few years

I'm not saying we should be ranked like crazy high or anything...but being unranked after barely losing in OT last year in the sweet sixteen, which they got to by beating to a team which is apparently #5 in the country this year :rofl

By LUconn
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-  October 30th, 2008, 2:53 pm #205602
While WVU had has a good team coming in, they don't have Joe Alexander.

By TDDance234
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-  October 30th, 2008, 3:03 pm #205605
LUconn wrote:While WVU had has a good team coming in, they don't have Joe Alexander.
And losing 3 of their top 4 scorers from last year.
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By pbow
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-  October 30th, 2008, 3:04 pm #205606
LUconn wrote:While WVU had has a good team coming in, they don't have Joe Alexander.
that is a good point...but we still have some good freshmen and a pretty good core...the last couple years west virginia has just found ways to win (hopefully they'll keep that up)
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By pbow
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-  October 30th, 2008, 3:06 pm #205608
TDDance234 wrote: And losing 3 of their top 4 scorers from last year.
That's not right...we lost our #1 and #4 (Alexander and Nichols)
Ruoff and Butler are still there
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