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Arena_Power_Rankings
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Date Posted:
10/27/07 10:02am
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The Arena's College Basketball Rankings
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Okay, here is the preseason rankings from the ESPN/USA Today Poll
ESPN/USA Today Poll
1. North Carolina (10) 0-0 739
2. UCLA (12) 0-0 734
3. Memphis (8) 0-0 731
4. Kansas (1) 0-0 669
5. Georgetown 0-0 625
6. Louisville 0-0 620
7. Tennessee 0-0 598
8. Michigan State 0-0 503
9. Indiana 0-0 479
10. Washington State 0-0 464
11. Duke 0-0 390
12. Marquette 0-0 381
13. Oregon 0-0 360
14. Gonzaga 0-0 252
14. Texas A&M 0-0 252
16. Texas 0-0 216
17. Arizona 0-0 205
18. USC 0-0 189
19. Arkansas 0-0 173
20. Pittsburgh 0-0 160
21. Stanford 0-0 158
22. Kentucky 0-0 155
23. Southern Illinois 0-0 137
24. North Carolina State 0-0 119
25. Villanova 0-0 111
Others Recieving Votes:
Kansas State 94, Syracuse 69, Ohio State 65, Clemson 56, Connecticut 55, Butler 42, Davidson 39, Xavier 38, Alabama 31, Mississippi State 30, Florida 26, Wisconsin 21, Illinois 16, Washington 12, Brigham Young 12, Nevada 8, Bradley 7, Virginia 7, Virginia Commonwealth 5, Utah 4, Baylor 3, Old Dominion 3, Saint Joseph's 3, Fresno State 2, George Mason 2, Utah State 2, Notre Dame 1, California 1, Maryland 1.
As the College Basketball season sets to get underway, I will again start a rankings thread where everyone gets to decide what team they think should be ranked. So look over the teams and get your votes into Arena_Power_Rankings each and every week.
I will post the first week's results the Wednesday after the first week the AP Results are posted. That should be the 14th of November. The season starts the 5th of November, but almost no ranked teams play until the second week of the season. If you think that a once a month schedule of voting for the rankings would be better considering the longer schedule, then the last Wednesday of each month will be when you can send in your rankings.
Let me know which you prefer and get ready to root for your favorite team!
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Rogue...Jedi
Title: Arena Manager
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Date Posted:
10/27/07 10:48am
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Probably best to keep the poll weekly, given how much can still happen in a given week... if not, then maybe twice a month at least.
Hard for me to vote preseason, without having seen any team yet this season. Thats when you have teams like ND this year in football, make you look stupid 
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Obese_1_Ka-Blooey
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Date Posted:
10/27/07 11:21am
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It's gonna be hard to keep up with all these teams throughout the season. I'm not sure if I can participate...
Nice to see Cal getting a vote, but who the heck would give them it? What a waste, in my opinion.
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Rogue...Jedi
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Date Posted:
10/27/07 12:12pm
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Akin to Spurrier's penchant for putting Duke at 25 in his preseason football poll?
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rechedelphar
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Date Posted:
10/27/07 3:51pm
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hey that's the closest Clemson's come to getting in the preseason bowl in about a century
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Clemson football: 20-17 loss to Maryland, next: vs Wake Forest
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Rogue...Jedi
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Date Posted:
10/27/07 4:34pm
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My questions with Clemson deal with them handling quality teams in conference - we saw them start off 17-0 (or something close to that) last year against no competition to speak of, before crumbling in ACC play. They've got some talent, though. rech, do you know who Clemson plays on their pre-conference slate?
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rechedelphar
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Date Posted:
10/28/07 6:44am
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RE: The Arena's College Basketball Rankings
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we play Georgia, South Carolina, Purdue, Alabama with Alabama and MSU on the road. Clemson also goes to Puerto Rico for a tournamnet were they play Depaul and Ole Miss, and of course a bunch of mid majors throughout
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Rogue...Jedi
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Date Posted:
10/28/07 7:53am
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Definitely a far more respectable slate than last years line up... maybe we'll actually see how good Clemson is before January this year.
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rechedelphar
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Date Posted:
10/28/07 8:12am
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yes but the ACC will still be very tough. All I want this year is a trip to the big dance, anything less would be dissapointing
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Arena_Power_Rankings
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Date Posted:
11/3/07 5:14am
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RE: The Arena's College Basketball Rankings
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Here are the AP Top 25 Preseason College Basketball Rankings.
AP Top 25
Rk Team W-L Points Prev Next
1 North Carolina (29) 0-0 1728 - Davidson
2 UCLA (24) 0-0 1710 - Portland State
3 Memphis (18) 0-0 1680 - Tennessee-Martin
4 Kansas 0-0 1568 - Louisiana-Monroe
5 Georgetown (1) 0-0 1504 - William & Mary
6 Louisville 0-0 1380 - Hartford
7 Tennessee 0-0 1371 - Temple
8 Michigan State 0-0 1296 - Chicago State
9 Indiana 0-0 1145 - Chattanooga
10 Washington State 0-0 1103 - Eastern Washington
11 Marquette 0-0 1002 - IUPUI
12 Oregon 0-0 918 - Pepperdine
13 Duke 0-0 868 - North Carolina Central
14 Gonzaga 0-0 711 - Montana
15 Texas 0-0 638 - Texas-San Antonio
16 Texas A&M 0-0 623 - McNeese State
17 Arizona 0-0 499 - Northern Arizona
18 USC 0-0 480 - Mercer
19 Arkansas 0-0 468 - Wofford
20 Kentucky 0-0 372 - Central Arkansas
21 North Carolina State 0-0 338 - William & Mary
22 Pittsburgh 0-0 293 - Houston Baptist
23 Stanford 0-0 290 - Harvard
24 Southern Illinois 0-0 222 - Northern Illinois
25 Kansas State 0-0 216 - Sacramento State
Others receiving votes:
Villanova 144, Ohio State 128, Butler 114, Syracuse 103, Clemson 83, Xavier 73, Connecticut 50, Davidson 50, Mississippi State 38, Florida 35, West Virginia 20, Virginia Commonwealth 19, Virginia 19, Notre Dame 18, Wisconsin 15, Alabama 14, Missouri 8, Maryland 6, Nevada 6, Vanderbilt 6, Washington 6, New Mexico State 4, Utah State 4, Brigham Young 3, Providence 3, Akron 2, Illinois 2, Southern Miss 2, George Mason 1, Houston 1.
The first Arena Top 25 poll will be due by Wednesday November 14th. Send a PM to Arena_Power_Rankings no later than 11:59 P.M. board time on that date. I will do just two polls in November, with the next one being on the 28th of November. After that, depending on teams schedules, I will update it either every week or every two weeks until the top teams start playing ranked teams (most teams have very soft schedules at the beginning of the season) when it will become weekly. Let me know what you think as well and I'll go with the most popular choice.
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rechedelphar
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Date Posted:
11/3/07 9:25am
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Mochigan State goes down to Division 2 Grand Valley State
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rechedelphar
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Date Posted:
11/5/07 3:16pm
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RE: The Arena's College Basketball Rankings
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season preview
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Dan
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Date Posted:
11/5/07 4:33pm
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Here's Dan's preseason poll:
1. Florida
It's about as worthwhile and accurate as all these other ones. 
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rechedelphar
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Date Posted:
11/5/07 4:54pm
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the one I posted up there does not have Clemson in the top 64 
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Date Posted:
11/12/07 10:42am
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ESPN/USA Today Poll, Week 1
1. North Carolina (14) 0-0 747
2. UCLA (10) 1-0 744
3. Memphis (6) 2-0 715
4. Kansas (1) 2-0 680
5. Georgetown 1-0 636
6. Louisville 0-0 610
7. Tennessee 1-0 606
8. Indiana 0-0 504
9. Washington State 1-0 502
10. Duke 1-0 428
11. Marquette 1-0 404
12. Michigan State 0-0 400
13. Oregon 2-0 398
14. Gonzaga 1-0 320
15. Texas A&M 1-0 289
16. Texas 0-0 269
17. Arizona 0-0 266
18. Arkansas 1-0 205
19. Pittsburgh 3-0 201
20. Stanford 3-0 191
21. Southern Illinois 0-0 155
22. North Carolina State 0-0 127
23. Villanova 1-0 114
24. Kansas State 2-0 89
25. Syracuse 0-0 69
Others Recieving Votes:
Clemson 51, Davidson 41, Butler 40, Xavier 38, Wisconsin 36, Florida 26, Connecticut 26, Mississippi State 23, USC 17, Ohio State 15, Alabama 14, Brigham Young 14, Washington 14, Illinois 11, Virginia Commonwealth 6, Utah 6, Old Dominion 4, Saint Joseph's 4, Vanderbilt 3, Oklahoma 3, Notre Dame 3, George Mason 3, California 2, Virginia 2, San Diego State 1, Kentucky 1, Maryland 1, Mercer 1.
Dropped From Rankings:
USC 18, Kentucky 22.
Because there are lots of games scheduled on Wednesday looking at the schedule, I will extend your poll rankings to be sent in no later than Thursday's at 11:59 P.M. board time. So, get your rankings sent by PM to Arena_Power_Rankings by that time this week and we'll have the first Arena Top 25 Basketball Poll on Friday. Then the next one after that will be due no later than Thursday, November 29th by 11:59 P.M. board time with the results posted on November 30th.
Once the top teams start the main part of their schedule and play other ranked teams, then we'll switch the rankings to be every week. That should be either in December or January at the latest. I'll post the AP Poll results also when those come out.
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Date Posted:
11/12/07 2:59pm
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AP Top 25 College Basketball Rankings, Week 1
1. North Carolina (29) 0-0 1,737
2. UCLA (24) 1-0 1,710
3. Memphis (18) 2-0 1,686
4. Kansas 2-0 1,566
5. Georgetown (1) 1-0 1,503
6. Louisville 0-0 1,394
7. Tennessee 1-0 1,386
8. Indiana 0-0 1,172
9. Washington State 1-0 1,142
10. Marquette 1-0 1,026
11. Oregon 2-0 1,003
12. Michigan State 0-0 976
13. Duke 1-0 917
14. Gonzaga 1-0 779
15. Texas A&M 1-0 693
16. Texas 0-0 684
17. Arizona 0-0 581
18. Arkansas 1-0 558
19. Pittsburgh 3-0 413
20. Stanford 3-0 389
21. North Carolina State 0-0 382
22. Kansas State 2-0 297
23. Southern Illinois 0-0 282
24. Villanova 1-0 190
25. Butler 1-0 122
Others Recieving Votes:
Syracuse 118, Clemson 99, Xavier 95, Connecticut 56, Florida 56, Davidson 55, Ohio State 55, Mississippi State 51, Virginia Commonwealth 25, West Virginia 22, Wisconsin 21, Notre Dame 21, Virginia 18, Kentucky 16, Alabama 15, Vanderbilt 11, Brigham Young 10, Maryland 8, Missouri 8, Gardner-Webb 7, Nevada 6, Washington 6, Akron 5, Oklahoma 5, Providence 4, Mercer 4, USC 4, George Mason 3, Houston 2, San Diego State 2, Southern Miss 2, Illinois 1, Western Kentucky 1.
Dropped From Rankings:
USC 18, Kentucky 20.
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