[Rosiak's Blog] Marquette gets votes - er, vote - again in AP poll

[ToddRosiakSays]

Marquette gets votes - er, vote - again in AP poll
               

In case you didn't notice last week, Marquette received 10 votes in the Associated Press top 25 poll.

Well, the same thing happened again this week in the AP top 25 poll. (Marquette did not receive any votes in the coaches poll.)

Funny thing is, these 10 "votes" have all come from the same person the last two weeks.
               

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/83841597.html
               

[PGsHeroes32]

I think the boundaries are being pushed a little on this one.

[ecompt]

who's the genius coach who thinks Notre Dame is worthy of Top 25 status? The Irish get votes every week.

[avid1010]

who's the genius coach who thinks Notre Dame is worthy of Top 25 status? The Irish get votes every week.

Same guy...takes his Catholicism seriously.

[77ncaachamps]

Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News!

My hometown paper! I swear...I had NOTHING to do with this!

Anyhew...I hope that dispels the "West Coast" bias out of some people's "Anti-East Coast" sails.

[Aughnanure]

anyone know how these voting points work out? I mean putting us 16th by one person equals 10 votes? Just curious if anyone has any further insights into how it works and if there is a difference between the AP and Coaches'.

[BuzzSucksSucks]

anyone know how these voting points work out? I mean putting us 16th by one person equals 10 votes? Just curious if anyone has any further insights into how it works and if there is a difference between the AP and Coaches'.

Each voter selects his top 25.  A first place vote earns that team 25 points, 2nd gets 24 points, etc.  25th place gets one point.  Add up the totals of all the voters, and the top 25 vote-getters are in your poll.   The rest are listed as "others receiving votes."  You'd think that if only one guy has a team in his top 25, he'd have them, say, 25th (one point).  This guy must be a bit of an iconoclast, making the bold leap to 16th, where no one else even has us listed.  Coaches vs AP differs only in the number of voters.  Methods are identical.  

[romey]

I hate to say it, but a 16th place vote from a writer in San Diego seems a little hollow.  I mean seriously, how many of our games has he seen and if one guy thinks we deserve a 16, why doesn't anyone else?

thanks, I guess.

[77ncaachamps]

I hate to say it, but a 16th place vote from a writer in San Diego seems a little hollow.  I mean seriously, how many of our games has he seen and if one guy thinks we deserve a 16, why doesn't anyone else?

thanks, I guess.

San Jose...there's a difference, sheesh.

It's like Wausau and Wauwatosa.



Wilner's one to be an unorthodox writer/voter. And when it comes to basketball rankings, I don't blame him. He doesn't have to be a "traditionalist" from back East.

I mean look around us here in the Bay Area. We're full of teams that don't reek of basketball success of recent memory (except for Stanford's Women's BKB program): Cal (arguably the 2nd best team in the Bay), Stanford (struggling in a struggling Pac 10), San Jose State (great strides but no one knows them), Santa Clara (an almost upset of Gonzaga, but that's still a L), San Francisco (did you know they upset Gonzaga?), and St. Mary's (arguably the #1 team in the Bay).

Not necessarily teams (beyond Cal and Stanford) that most people east of CA would recognize. And though most are rich in basketball tradition (Bill Russell, Hank Luisetti, Jason Kidd), they lack rivalries that capture a regional imagination (save "the Big Game" but that's football).