After a one week hiatus I jumped back into the CBS Blog Poll hoping to make a splash -- and I did, being named the Coulter/Kos Award winner (read: I'm a biased homer). Here's the full poll results and analysis.
More on the Coulter/Kos Award after a look at my weekly ballot (which was posted late in deference to Steve's essay).
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| Rank | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pittsburgh | |
| 2 | Connecticut | |
| 3 | Oklahoma | |
| 4 | Louisville | |
| 5 | Memphis | |
| 6 | North Carolina | |
| 7 | Missouri | |
| 8 | Marquette | |
| 9 | Duke | |
| 10 | Wake Forest | |
| 11 | Villanova | |
| 12 | Arizona St. | |
| 13 | Michigan St. | |
| 14 | Clemson | |
| 15 | Kansas | |
| 16 | Dayton | |
| 17 | Gonzaga | |
| 18 | UCLA | |
| 19 | Washington | |
| 20 | Louisiana St. | |
| 21 | Purdue | |
| 22 | Texas | |
| 23 | Butler | |
| 24 | St. Mary's | |
| 25 | West Virginia | |
- MU at #8 based on the Warriors' strong road record, 12-2 overall in BE.
- Xavier is out of the top 25 for now -- the Flyers look like the class of the A-10.
- Trent Johnson at LSU is giving Buzz Williams a run for his money for the title of "winningest new coach" this season
- I still think Purdue will out-perform their ranking in March.
- Illinois sucks and will never be ranked again (by me) this season. 33 points at home?
- Mizzou wins 10 of 11 -- I can't ignore them anymore.
- Still have doubts about Memphis -- CUSA is horrible.
"You can't fault Marquette blog Cracked Sidewalks too much for voting their beloved Golden Eagles eighth , not when several other bloggers had them just as high or higher and MU is--after all--23-4 overall, 12-2 in the Big East, and coming off of an impressive road win over a truly desperate Georgetown squad. Nonetheless, eighth is enough to hand Cracked Sidewalks this week's CK Award, and fair or not it probably wasn't the best week to tempt karma: Marquette has a home date with UConn and a trip to Louisville on tap between now and next week's poll."
3 comments:
Just imagine if we could erase the USF loss and either the Dayton or Tenn loss. Is it possible that 3 Big East teams coulda been 1,2,3? I think so.
Seriously though - Burke needs to beat the shit out of Thabeet. He's a 7 foot tall pansy. Where's Robert Jackson when you need him?
I'm a faithful Warrior fanatic, but I don't think anyone could seriously say Thabeet is a pansy.
;)
I love that you wont rank Illinois, but you put Missouri 7...yet Illinois beat Missouri by 16. and plays in a conference that is waaaay better. The Big 12 is really the Big 1 and the 11 dwarfs.
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