[Cracked Sidewalks] CBS Blog Poll, Week 3

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CBS Blog Poll, Week 3

Written by: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Blair)

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).

RankTeam[/tr]

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.

On the Coulter/Kos Award:

"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."

http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2009/02/cbs-blog-poll-week-3.html