AP Poll Out

The Division I NCAA Basketball Associated Press Top 25 Poll is out, so fans can start their complaining, debating and cheering. The AP has selected North Carolina as the top team in the nation headed into the 2007-’08 season of play. This didn’t come as much of a surprise, as several other respected polls had a similar pick for their number one team. The rest of the list is fairly standard as well, with UCLA, Memphis, Kansas and Georgetown rounding out the top 5. UNC got a total of 29 first place votes. UCLA was not far behind with 24. Memphis got 18 first place votes, and Georgetown was the only other team with a first place vote. This leaves Kansas inexplicably skipped over for the first place voting Poor Jayhawks. Of course, they will have plenty of chances to climb up the polls once the season begins.

You can see how the voting process gets very standardized by the way the top 25 teams seems to have been agreed upon by all the voters beforehand, with only the placement of the teams within the top 25 as a point of contention. Just look at how the voting went near the end of the poll:

Team Votes
24. Southern Illinois……..222
25. Kansas State…………216
26. Villanova ………………144

How did Villanova receive 72 fewer votes than Kansas State at that point in the rankings? You would think that the competition to get into the poll would be more… competitive.

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