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Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: georgetown, gonzaga, kansas, kansas state, kentucky, maryland, northern iowa, ohio state, purdue, richmond, syracuse, vanderbilt, wisconsin | 
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Posted by zhayes9
Only one more of these after this week, and then unlike our football counterparts, they become completely irrelevant. Analysis after the jump…
No Comments » | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: acc, atlantic 10, big 10, big 12, big east, conference usa, georgetown, horizon, kansas, kentucky, maryland, mountain west, northern iowa, purdue, richmond, sec, syracuse, texas, texas a&m, utep, wcc, xavier | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
It’s a new week and we’re back with a new Top 25 poll. The usual analysis after the jump…
No Comments » | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: acc, butler, byu, gonzaga, kansas, kentucky, northern iowa, ohio state, wake forest, wisconsin | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
It’s a new week and we’re back with a new Top 25 poll. The usual analysis after the jump…
Note that this week Rob Dauster of BiaH is filling in for one or usual pollsters.
3 Comments | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: kansas, kansas state, kentucky, michigan state, northern iowa, purdue, richmond, syracuse, texas, texas a&m, villanova | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
It’s a new week and we’re back with a new Top 25 poll. The usual analysis after the jump…
Note that this week Rob Dauster of BiaH is filling in for one or usual pollsters.
No Comments » | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: acc, atlantic 10, big 10, big 12, big east, gonzaga, horizon, kansas, mountain west, mvc, sec, syracuse, texas a&m, wake forest, wcc, wisconsin | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
A good discussion on twitter today about how to rank the top four (all one-loss) teams. Here’s our version, with analysis after the jump:
6 Comments | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: acc, atlantic 10, baylor, big 10, big 12, big east, butler, florida st, georgia tech, horizon, kansas, kansas st, mississippi, mississippi st, missouri, missouri valley, mountain west, northern iowa, sec, uab, wake forest, wcc | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
Another week in the books, and we’re now only 6+ semanas from Selection Sunday. How different will this poll look then? Who has been the beneficiary of a soft schedule and/or is prone to a late-season collapse?
Ed. Note: Poll does not include Monday night’s games.
1 Comment | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: clemson, georgia tech, gonzaga, kentucky, mississippi, mississippi state, new mexico, northern iowa, texas, vanderbilt, wake forest | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
The top eight are relatively unchanged, but nobody can figure out the bottom of this poll each week…
No Comments » | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: baylor, byu, clemson, connecticut, kansas, kentucky, miami, new mexico, north carolina, northern iowa, ohio state, purdue, texas, uab, villanova, wisconsin | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
How did the Upset Weekend impact our poll this week? Since so many teams lost, there wasn’t all that much relative movement. Analysis after the jump…
4 Comments | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: acc, atlantic 10, baylor, big 10, big 12, big east, byu, clemson, connecticut, florida st, georgia tech, kansas, miami (fl), michigan st, mountain west, ole miss, pittsburgh, sec, tennessee, texas, texas tech, washington, wcc, wisconsin | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
Ok, the time for messing around is over. Let’s get conference play started and see what those top teams are really made of, shall we? Analysis after the jump…
2 Comments | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: byu, clemson, connecticut, duke, florida, florida state, gonzaga, kansas, kentucky, ohio state, purdue, tennessee, texas, texas tech, uab, villanova, wisconsin | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
Here’s this week’s Top 25, and you might be surprised as a new #1 takes over even though the top six all won last week. Analysis after the jump…
1 Comment | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: acc, atlantic 10, big 10, big 12, big east, butler, cusa, duke, florida, georgia tech, kansas, mississippi st, mississippi state, mountain west, ohio st, ohio state, pac-10, purdue, sec, tennessee, texas, texas a&m, uab, unlv, villanova, xavier | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
As we head into what is probably the lightest week of games all season long, here’s this week’s Top 25. Analysis after the jump…
No Comments » | Regular Features, blogpoll | Tagged: cincinnati, clemson, florida, georgetown, georgia tech, mississippi, temple, tennessee, texas a&m, unlv, xavier | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
Last weekend’s Villanova loss created the only substantive movement in the RTC Top 25 this week, but we weren’t rating the Wildcats as high as everyone else anyway, so the market on Jay Wright’s team appears to have been corrected. Analysis after the jump…
No Comments » | blogpoll | Tagged: acc, atlantic 10, big 10, big 12, big east, horizon, illinois, kansas st, memphis, mountain west, new mexico, ohio st, pac-10, sec, texas a&m, texas tech, unc, unlv, villanova, washington, wcc, west virginia, wisconsin, xavier | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
The Top 10 is still fairly static after five weeks of polling, but we’re seeing all kinds of movement in and out at the bottom of the poll on a week-to-week basis. Analysis after the jump…
2 Comments | blogpoll | Tagged: acc, big 10, big 12, big east, butler, california, cincinnati, clemson, connecticut, cusa, duke, florida, florida st, georgetown, georgia tech, gonzaga, horizon, illinois, kansas, kentucky, louisville, memphis, michigan, michigan st, mountain west, ohio st, oklahoma st, pac-10, purdue, sec, syracuse, tennessee, texas, texas a&m, unc, unlv, villanova, washington, wcc, west virginia, wisconsin | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
Lots of movement in this week’s poll, as nearly every team of consequence played in some kind of holiday tournament last week. Analysis follows the jump…
1 Comment | blogpoll | Tagged: acc, big 10, big 12, big east, cincinnati, clemson, florida, gonzaga, horizon, illinois, louisville, maryland, michigan, minnesota, mountain west, oklahoma st, pac-10, sec, syracuse, texas a&m, unlv, vanderbilt, washington, wcc, west virginia | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
Now that every team has a handful of games under its belt, we feel a little more justified in moving teams around based on what we’ve seen and read so far. With that in mind, here’s this week’s RTC Top 25. Analysis to follow after the jump…
2 Comments | blogpoll | Tagged: butler, california, dayton, duke, florida, georgetown, georgia tech, gonzaga, illinois, kansas, kentucky, louisville, maryland, michigan, michigan st, minnesota, ohio st, oklahoma, oklahoma st, purdue, siena, syracuse, tennessee, texas, uconn, unc, vanderbilt, villanova, washington, west virginia | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
We’re back with the second version of the RTC Top 25. Not a lot of movement this week, but Ohio State and California must have made an impression (in opposite ways) on some of us, because OSU jumped four spots while the Bears dropped four. With the games on the schedule this week, we’ll definitely start to see some separation next time around.
1 Comment | blogpoll | Tagged: butler, california, dayton, duke, florida, georgetown, georgia tech, illinois, kansas, kentucky, michigan, michigan st, ohio st, oklahoma, oklahoma st, purdue, siena, tennessee, texas, top 25, uconn, unc, vanderbilt, villanova, washington, west virginia | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
You’ve undoubtedly been tracking our Tweeting the Preview series over the last two weeks. Well, we just finished it up with Kansas coming in at the #1 spot, so now it’s time for us to tell you how we got there with our Preseason Top 25. The four primary writers/editors here at RTC are voting for our weekly rankings, and in the interest of transparency we’ll put each of our ballots on the site every week. If you disagree, let us know about it in the comments and we’ll try to address your points in kind. This will also be where we post our weekly ballot for the Blogpoll, which will presumably begin later this month.
2 Comments | 2009-10 Season Preview, blogpoll | Tagged: kansas, top 25 | Permalink
Posted by rtmsf
I’m proud to re-introduce a feature here at Rush the Court – the RTC Blogpoll.
From November through March during the college hoops season, check back here every Monday for the rankings of our four main scribes- myself, rtmsf, nvr1983 and jstevrtc- combined into one, fantastic Top 25 ranking. Take that, AP and coaches! The aggegrate of our own internal poll will constitute what we submit to the larger national Blogpoll each week.
To get our loyal readers into hoops mode even for a few minutes during the long offseason, here’s a summer edition of the rankings with commentary provided by yours truly regarding each ranked team. Look for this feature on a weekly basis during the 2009-10 campaign (which, as I concluded while compiling this poll, cannot come soon enough).
7 Comments | blogpoll | Tagged: blogpoll | Permalink
Posted by zhayes9
Once again I had trouble with coming up with an order for these teams because they keep on losing games they shouldn’t. I feel like it’s easy to classify them into groups, but hard to differentiate within those groups outside of the top 10. Anyways, leave your praise or criticism in the comment section.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Pittsburgh |  1 |
| 2 | North Carolina | 1 |
| 3 | Memphis | 3 |
| 4 | Connecticut |  3 |
| 5 | Louisville | |
| 6 | Oklahoma | 2 |
| 7 | Michigan St. | |
| 8 | Duke | |
| 9 | Wake Forest | 1 |
| 10 | Villanova | 1 |
| 11 | Gonzaga | 3 |
| 12 | Kansas | 3 |
| 13 | Washington | 5 |
| 14 | Missouri | 2 |
| 15 | Xavier | 4 |
| 16 | UCLA | 1 |
| 17 | Butler | 6 |
| 18 | Purdue | 5 |
| 19 | Louisiana St. | 7 |
| 20 | Clemson | |
| 21 | Syracuse | 3 |
| 22 | Illinois | |
| 23 | Florida St. | |
| 24 | Arizona St. | 3 |
| 25 | Marquette | 8 |
| Last week’s ballot | ||
No Comments » | blogpoll | Tagged: arizona state, blogpoll, butler, clemson, duke, florida state, fsu, gonzaga, illinois, kansas, louisville, lsu, marquette, memphis, michigan state, missouri, oklahoma, pittsburgh, purdue, syracuse, texas, ucla, uconn, unc, villanova, wake forest, washington, xavier | Permalink
Posted by nvr1983
