SportsHoopla Preseason Basketball top 25 voting

BoiseStateFan27 · 11-01-2011, 08:56 PM

lets see how this goes, turns out there's games on the 7th, ballots will be due that afternoon.

BoiseStateFan27 · 11-01-2011, 09:30 PM

guess I'll go

1. Ohio State- why is hardly anyone ranking Ohio State number one???? They return every talented player except Jon Diebler, don't get me wrong, Diebler was a great player but still this team is loaded. I'd say I trust them more then the other two.
2. North Carolina- They have just a loaded team, so far everyone has them as the overall top pick to win it all, I don't see that happening but another final four could well be in store.
3. Kentucky- Calipari doesn't have to start completely over this year which is something new, he actually returns some players on this team, the experience will help in March.
4. Syracuse- this is the unsung great team of this year, no ones really talking about them and just putting them in their top 25
5. Duke- Blue Devils will be good again.
6. Vandypants- They return all their key players from last years team, will be a great regular season team, big question, can they win a first round game???
7. Connecticut- The loss of Kemba Walker will hurt but a lot of their young players did play good at the end of the year, still it will be interesting to see how they fare without Kemba.
8. Louisville- They return a lot of starters from a great team last year, they probably don't want to see Morehead State though.
9. Pittsburgh- this should be a great regular season team before losing in the 2nd round of the tournament again.
10. Xavier- lots of returning starters on this team, their center is suspended so size could be a worry.
11. Wisconsin- yet another consistant program, should be another good year for them.
12. Baylor- they have a ton of talent, if they don't turn it over this year this team will win the Big 12.
13. Arizona- great tournament run for them last year, they do lose Derrick Williams
14. Marquette- this should be a good team
15. Florida- returns a good amount of starters from a team that made the elite 8.
16. Alabama- lots of returning starters for this team, they look to have a breakout year.
17. Gonzaga- they struggled a bit last year, don't expect that to happen again this year.
18. UCLA- they will be looking to finally get back to being good again.
19. Kansas- usually they're a consistant program but they lost A LOT, we've seen a lot of big programs in the past few years lose a lot of players and fade to mediocrity for awile so this is a team that I'm not bought on.
20. New Mexico returns most of their big players, the MWC has produced great teams the past few years New Mexico looks like that team this year.
21. Cincinnati- they return a lot from what turned out to be a good team last year.
22. Texas A&M - they're in coaching limbo right now, that's what hurts this team's ranking
23. Temple- they return quite a bit from a good team last year
24. IPFW Mastodons- Mastodons will dominate, but I'm not sure if people are ready to see them in the spot they belong
25. Boise State- homer vote

BRB another score in the Toledo/NIU game

uncfan103 · 11-01-2011, 09:36 PM

1. Kentucky
2. Ohio State
3. North Carolina
4. Connecticut
5. Baylor
6. Syracuse
7. Pittsburgh
8. Memphis
9. Duke
10. Vanderbilt
11. Wisconsin
12. Marquette
13. Xavier
14. Kansas
15. Louisville
16. UCLA
17. Florida State
18. Missouri
19. Arizona
20. Florida
21. Gonzaga
22. Butler
23. Detroit
24. Cleveland State
25. Texas

Smoke · 11-01-2011, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BoiseStateFan27

guess I'll go

1. Ohio State- why is hardly anyone ranking Ohio State number one???? They return every talented player except Jon Diebler, don't get me wrong, Diebler was a great player but still this team is loaded. I'd say I trust them more then the other two.
2. North Carolina- They have just a loaded team, so far everyone has them as the overall top pick to win it all, I don't see that happening but another final four could well be in store.
3. Kentucky- Calipari doesn't have to start completely over this year which is something new, he actually returns some players on this team, the experience will help in March.
4. Syracuse- this is the unsung great team of this year, no ones really talking about them and just putting them in their top 25
5. Duke- Blue Devils will be good again.

BRB Toledo just scored again

WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rmilia1 · 11-02-2011, 09:35 AM

1. UNC
2. Ohio State
3. Syracuse
4. Kentucky
5. Memphis
6. UCONN
7. Louisville
8. Duke
9. Florida
10. Pitt
11. Vanderbilt
12. Wisconsin
13. Kansas
14. Arizona
15. Baylor
16. Michigan
17. Texas A@M
18. Xavier
19. UCLA
20. New Mexico
21. Alabama
22. Washington
23. Cincinnati
24. Marquette
25. Florida State

- Just missed ( Texas, Mizzou, Creighton, Purdue, Cal, Butler, Cleveland State, Michigan State)

Smart · 11-02-2011, 10:50 AM

1. North Carolina
2. Ohio State
3. Connecticut
4. Kentucky
5. Duke
6. Syracuse
7. Gonzaga (These guys return 5 of their best six players from a team that played like a top 25 team for most of the end of last season. They also have a proven coach known for player improvement).
8. Memphis
9. Kansas
10. Arizona
11. Florida
12. Vanderbilt
13. Pitt
14. Louisville
15. Michigan State
16. Purdue (Good coach + Great player makes them better than teams ranked 15-25 in most of the national polls)
17. UCLA
18. Xavier
19. Baylor
20. Wisconsin (No depth. If it wasn't for my tremendous faith in JT and Bo, these guys wouldn't be ranked. Seriously, 4 out of our 5 starters could be benchwarmers on most NIT teams)
21. Alabama
22. Marquette
23. Illinois
24. Cincy
25. Michigan

Volbound1700 · 11-02-2011, 11:04 AM

1. Connecticut
2. Kentucky
3. North Carolina
4. Ohio State
5. Syracuse
6. Duke
7. Florida
8. Baylor
9. Pittsburgh
10. Vanderbilt
11. Louisville
12. Xavier
13. Arizona
14. Arkansas - Don't understand why this team is not rated with new Coach and Recruiting Class
15. UCLA
16. Michigan
17. Butler - Don't see why they are underrated once again
18. Purdue
19. Michigan State
20. Washington
21. Alabama
22. Gonzaga - Dont see the hype
23. Memphis - Dont see the hype
24. Utah State
25. Belmont

Smart · 11-02-2011, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Volbound1700

1. Connecticut
2. Kentucky
3. North Carolina
4. Ohio State
5. Syracuse
6. Duke
7. Florida
8. Baylor
9. Pittsburgh
10. Vanderbilt
11. Louisville
12. Xavier
13. Arizona
14. Arkansas - Don't understand why this team is not rated with new Coach and Recruiting Class
15. UCLA
16. Michigan
17. Butler - Don't see why they are underrated once again
18. Purdue
19. Michigan State
20. Washington
21. Alabama
22. Gonzaga - Dont see the hype
23. Memphis - Dont see the hype24. Utah State
25. Belmont

Both of these teams are returning most of their best players from a team that made the final 32 last year. How can you not "see the hype"?

Edit: Actually, Memphis lost in the round of 64, but lost a close game to a great team when the refs were definitely not favoring them.

herky · 11-02-2011, 12:00 PM

I'll have mine in later tonight.

BoiseStateFan27 · 11-03-2011, 12:12 AM

^^^^ YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!!

Butler lost to something called Northern State

I dropped them out

herky · 11-03-2011, 09:24 AM

1 - UNC
2 - Kentucky
3 - Duke
4 - Ohio State
5 - Syracuse
6 - Vanderbilt
7 - Pitt
8 - Florida
9 - UConn
10 - Wisconsin
11 - Memphis
12 - Baylor
13 - Xavier
14 - Louisville
15 - Kansas
16 - Arizona
17 - UCLA
18 - Michigan State
19 - Marquette
20 - Texas A&M
21 - Gonzaga
22 - Michigan
23 - Florida St
24 - California
25 - Purdue

LSUfanFloridaAlumni · 11-04-2011, 11:56 AM

1. Kentucky
2. Connecticut
3. North Carolina
4. Duke
5. Syracuse
6. Ohio State
7. Vanderbilt
8. Florida
9. Louisville
10. Xavier
11. Michigan State
12. Baylor
13. Kansas
14. Memphis
15. UCLA
16. Gonzaga
17. Michigan
18. Purdue
19. Alabama
20. Arizona
21. Butler
22. Washington
23. Texas A&M
24. Arkansas
25. Florida State

BoiseStateFan27 · 11-09-2011, 02:28 PM

yeah we didn't get enough votes, sorry

thanks to those of you who did vote

we'll try this again after preseason tournaments, if we don't get enough then we likely won't have a basketball poll.

goDAWGSsicem · 11-20-2011, 03:06 AM

I want to see how UGA does in the CBE Classic in a couple of days, if they do decent -I might actually pay attention to CBB this season.

mutiger · 11-21-2011, 07:47 PM

Glad you guys are not actual voters

BoiseStateFan27 · 11-21-2011, 08:21 PM

going to try this, Im doing this top 25 based on rpi and record(must be within top 150 of RPI)

might as well post it here

1. Alabama
2. Duke
3. Syracuse
4. Kentucky
5. Northwestern
6. Marquette
7. Florida State
8. North Dakota State
9. Stanford
10. Creighton
11. Connecticut
12. Indiana
13. Oregon State
14. Gonzaga
15. Missouri
16. Denver
17. Virginia Tech
18. Massachusetts
19. Houston
20. Ohio State
21. Minnesota
22. Georgia
23. Xavier
24. Saint Louis
25. College of Charleston

Lumbee09 · 11-23-2011, 12:18 PM

I'll vote after a week or 2.... Still too early to really know how good all of these teams are.

BoiseStateFan27 · 11-23-2011, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lumbee09

I'll vote after a week or 2.... Still too early to really know how good all of these teams are.

we ended up not doing this poll, sir

I'm going to try this again after preseason tournaments

TheDudeAbides · 11-23-2011, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncfan103

1. Kentucky
2. Ohio State
3. North Carolina
4. Connecticut
5. Baylor
6. Syracuse
7. Pittsburgh
8. Memphis
9. Duke
10. Vanderbilt
11. Wisconsin
12. Marquette
13. Xavier
14. Kansas
15. Louisville
16. UCLA
17. Florida State
18. Missouri
19. Arizona
20. Florida
21. Gonzaga
22. Butler
23. Detroit
24. Cleveland State
25. Texas

FAIL

BoiseStateFan27 · 12-11-2011, 11:12 PM

I'm going to post my top 25 at the moment, no system this time though

by the way the day after Christmas I'll start up the voting for the poll and see how it goes

anyways back to my top 25

1. Ohio State- they lost but it was without their top player
2. Syracuse
3. Baylor
4. Xavier
5. Louisville
6. Indiana- why not??
7. Kentucky
8. Duke
9. Missouri
10. Marquette
11. North Carolina
12. Kansas
13. Connecticut
14. Wisconsin
15. Pitt
16. Florida
17. UNLV
18. Harvard
19. Georgetown
20. Murray State
21. Illinois
22. Mississippi State
23. Creighton
24. San Diego State
25. Alabama

this feels like a congested top 25

others that are really close: Mac Attack, Michigan State, Vandypants, Gonzaga, Michigan, Wyoming, Saint Louis, Texas A&M, Seton Hall, Providence, Campbell Fighing Camels(hey they only have one loss and it's against Creighton), Minnesota, Tulane, Cleveland State, Northern Iowa, and Boise State(at home only though, on the road they go in the bottom 10)

11-01-2011, 08:56 PM	#1
BoiseStateFan27 voted #2 Hoopla member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 37,293 Rep Power: 100071	SportsHoopla Preseason Basketball top 25 voting lets see how this goes, turns out there's games on the 7th, ballots will be due that afternoon. __________________ a not so wise person once said: "you guys know it other whys you wouldn't be here"

11-01-2011, 09:30 PM	#2
BoiseStateFan27 voted #2 Hoopla member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 37,293 Rep Power: 100071	guess I'll go 1. Ohio State- why is hardly anyone ranking Ohio State number one???? They return every talented player except Jon Diebler, don't get me wrong, Diebler was a great player but still this team is loaded. I'd say I trust them more then the other two. 2. North Carolina- They have just a loaded team, so far everyone has them as the overall top pick to win it all, I don't see that happening but another final four could well be in store. 3. Kentucky- Calipari doesn't have to start completely over this year which is something new, he actually returns some players on this team, the experience will help in March. 4. Syracuse- this is the unsung great team of this year, no ones really talking about them and just putting them in their top 25 5. Duke- Blue Devils will be good again. 6. Vandypants- They return all their key players from last years team, will be a great regular season team, big question, can they win a first round game??? 7. Connecticut- The loss of Kemba Walker will hurt but a lot of their young players did play good at the end of the year, still it will be interesting to see how they fare without Kemba. 8. Louisville- They return a lot of starters from a great team last year, they probably don't want to see Morehead State though. 9. Pittsburgh- this should be a great regular season team before losing in the 2nd round of the tournament again. 10. Xavier- lots of returning starters on this team, their center is suspended so size could be a worry. 11. Wisconsin- yet another consistant program, should be another good year for them. 12. Baylor- they have a ton of talent, if they don't turn it over this year this team will win the Big 12. 13. Arizona- great tournament run for them last year, they do lose Derrick Williams 14. Marquette- this should be a good team 15. Florida- returns a good amount of starters from a team that made the elite 8. 16. Alabama- lots of returning starters for this team, they look to have a breakout year. 17. Gonzaga- they struggled a bit last year, don't expect that to happen again this year. 18. UCLA- they will be looking to finally get back to being good again. 19. Kansas- usually they're a consistant program but they lost A LOT, we've seen a lot of big programs in the past few years lose a lot of players and fade to mediocrity for awile so this is a team that I'm not bought on. 20. New Mexico returns most of their big players, the MWC has produced great teams the past few years New Mexico looks like that team this year. 21. Cincinnati- they return a lot from what turned out to be a good team last year. 22. Texas A&M - they're in coaching limbo right now, that's what hurts this team's ranking 23. Temple- they return quite a bit from a good team last year 24. IPFW Mastodons- Mastodons will dominate, but I'm not sure if people are ready to see them in the spot they belong 25. Boise State- homer vote BRB another score in the Toledo/NIU game __________________ a not so wise person once said: "you guys know it other whys you wouldn't be here" Last edited by BoiseStateFan27; 11-03-2011 at 12:11 AM.

11-02-2011, 09:35 AM	#5
rmilia1 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: iowa Posts: 2,334 Rep Power: 6526	1. UNC 2. Ohio State 3. Syracuse 4. Kentucky 5. Memphis 6. UCONN 7. Louisville 8. Duke 9. Florida 10. Pitt 11. Vanderbilt 12. Wisconsin 13. Kansas 14. Arizona 15. Baylor 16. Michigan 17. Texas A@M 18. Xavier 19. UCLA 20. New Mexico 21. Alabama 22. Washington 23. Cincinnati 24. Marquette 25. Florida State - Just missed ( Texas, Mizzou, Creighton, Purdue, Cal, Butler, Cleveland State, Michigan State) __________________ A woman is just a man free from reason,common sense and accountability

11-02-2011, 12:00 PM	#9
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11-03-2011, 12:12 AM	#10
BoiseStateFan27 voted #2 Hoopla member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 37,293 Rep Power: 100071	^^^^ YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!! Butler lost to something called Northern State I dropped them out __________________ a not so wise person once said: "you guys know it other whys you wouldn't be here"

11-01-2011, 09:36 PM	#3
uncfan103 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,206 Rep Power: 8276	1. Kentucky 2. Ohio State 3. North Carolina 4. Connecticut 5. Baylor 6. Syracuse 7. Pittsburgh 8. Memphis 9. Duke 10. Vanderbilt 11. Wisconsin 12. Marquette 13. Xavier 14. Kansas 15. Louisville 16. UCLA 17. Florida State 18. Missouri 19. Arizona 20. Florida 21. Gonzaga 22. Butler 23. Detroit 24. Cleveland State 25. Texas

11-02-2011, 10:50 AM	#6
Smart Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 2,383 Rep Power: 14588	1. North Carolina 2. Ohio State 3. Connecticut 4. Kentucky 5. Duke 6. Syracuse 7. Gonzaga (These guys return 5 of their best six players from a team that played like a top 25 team for most of the end of last season. They also have a proven coach known for player improvement). 8. Memphis 9. Kansas 10. Arizona 11. Florida 12. Vanderbilt 13. Pitt 14. Louisville 15. Michigan State 16. Purdue (Good coach + Great player makes them better than teams ranked 15-25 in most of the national polls) 17. UCLA 18. Xavier 19. Baylor 20. Wisconsin (No depth. If it wasn't for my tremendous faith in JT and Bo, these guys wouldn't be ranked. Seriously, 4 out of our 5 starters could be benchwarmers on most NIT teams) 21. Alabama 22. Marquette 23. Illinois 24. Cincy 25. Michigan

11-02-2011, 11:04 AM	#7
Volbound1700 Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 620 Rep Power: 768	1. Connecticut 2. Kentucky 3. North Carolina 4. Ohio State 5. Syracuse 6. Duke 7. Florida 8. Baylor 9. Pittsburgh 10. Vanderbilt 11. Louisville 12. Xavier 13. Arizona 14. Arkansas - Don't understand why this team is not rated with new Coach and Recruiting Class 15. UCLA 16. Michigan 17. Butler - Don't see why they are underrated once again 18. Purdue 19. Michigan State 20. Washington 21. Alabama 22. Gonzaga - Dont see the hype 23. Memphis - Dont see the hype 24. Utah State 25. Belmont

11-03-2011, 09:24 AM	#11
herky Jack's smirking revenge Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: NE Iowa Posts: 8,156 Rep Power: 39737	1 - UNC 2 - Kentucky 3 - Duke 4 - Ohio State 5 - Syracuse 6 - Vanderbilt 7 - Pitt 8 - Florida 9 - UConn 10 - Wisconsin 11 - Memphis 12 - Baylor 13 - Xavier 14 - Louisville 15 - Kansas 16 - Arizona 17 - UCLA 18 - Michigan State 19 - Marquette 20 - Texas A&M 21 - Gonzaga 22 - Michigan 23 - Florida St 24 - California 25 - Purdue __________________ 757Hokie83 - "herky is the only sane person in this thread."

11-04-2011, 11:56 AM	#12
LSUfanFloridaAlumni Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: LA Posts: 940 Rep Power: 409	1. Kentucky 2. Connecticut 3. North Carolina 4. Duke 5. Syracuse 6. Ohio State 7. Vanderbilt 8. Florida 9. Louisville 10. Xavier 11. Michigan State 12. Baylor 13. Kansas 14. Memphis 15. UCLA 16. Gonzaga 17. Michigan 18. Purdue 19. Alabama 20. Arizona 21. Butler 22. Washington 23. Texas A&M 24. Arkansas 25. Florida State

11-09-2011, 02:28 PM	#13
BoiseStateFan27 voted #2 Hoopla member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 37,293 Rep Power: 100071	yeah we didn't get enough votes, sorry thanks to those of you who did vote we'll try this again after preseason tournaments, if we don't get enough then we likely won't have a basketball poll. __________________ a not so wise person once said: "you guys know it other whys you wouldn't be here"

11-20-2011, 03:06 AM	#14
goDAWGSsicem Biggest Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Georgia Posts: 19,527 Rep Power: 17495	I want to see how UGA does in the CBE Classic in a couple of days, if they do decent -I might actually pay attention to CBB this season. __________________ How 'Bout Them DAWGS?

11-21-2011, 07:47 PM	#15
mutiger Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Wildwood, MO Posts: 108 Rep Power: 43	Glad you guys are not actual voters

11-21-2011, 08:21 PM	#16
BoiseStateFan27 voted #2 Hoopla member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 37,293 Rep Power: 100071	going to try this, Im doing this top 25 based on rpi and record(must be within top 150 of RPI) might as well post it here 1. Alabama 2. Duke 3. Syracuse 4. Kentucky 5. Northwestern 6. Marquette 7. Florida State 8. North Dakota State 9. Stanford 10. Creighton 11. Connecticut 12. Indiana 13. Oregon State 14. Gonzaga 15. Missouri 16. Denver 17. Virginia Tech 18. Massachusetts 19. Houston 20. Ohio State 21. Minnesota 22. Georgia 23. Xavier 24. Saint Louis 25. College of Charleston __________________ a not so wise person once said: "you guys know it other whys you wouldn't be here"

11-23-2011, 12:18 PM	#17
Lumbee09 Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Blacksburg, VA Posts: 533 Rep Power: 3734	I'll vote after a week or 2.... Still too early to really know how good all of these teams are. __________________ "There is very little tolerance on our campus for misdeeds and misbehavior by athletes." - Dr. Sue Estroff, UNC Professor

12-11-2011, 11:12 PM	#20
BoiseStateFan27 voted #2 Hoopla member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 37,293 Rep Power: 100071	I'm going to post my top 25 at the moment, no system this time though by the way the day after Christmas I'll start up the voting for the poll and see how it goes anyways back to my top 25 1. Ohio State- they lost but it was without their top player 2. Syracuse 3. Baylor 4. Xavier 5. Louisville 6. Indiana- why not?? 7. Kentucky 8. Duke 9. Missouri 10. Marquette 11. North Carolina 12. Kansas 13. Connecticut 14. Wisconsin 15. Pitt 16. Florida 17. UNLV 18. Harvard 19. Georgetown 20. Murray State 21. Illinois 22. Mississippi State 23. Creighton 24. San Diego State 25. Alabama this feels like a congested top 25 others that are really close: Mac Attack, Michigan State, Vandypants, Gonzaga, Michigan, Wyoming, Saint Louis, Texas A&M, Seton Hall, Providence, Campbell Fighing Camels(hey they only have one loss and it's against Creighton), Minnesota, Tulane, Cleveland State, Northern Iowa, and Boise State(at home only though, on the road they go in the bottom 10) __________________ a not so wise person once said: "you guys know it other whys you wouldn't be here"