CBS Sports Bloggers’ Blogpoll, Week 2
Notes about this week’s poll:
+ This week featured a number of top ten teams losing… mostly away from home. Duke. Clemson. Wake Forest. And Louisville. Despite the losses, I can’t drop all of those teams and move in some other squad, because who could I say would beat those teams on a neutral site? Michigan State? Or Villanova, who lost to West Virginia? Of those teams, I could drop Wake Forest – losing to North Carolina State and Georgia Tech gives me reason to wonder.
+ I saw Butler smoke Loyola-Illinois in Chicago a month ago… and losing to a terrible squad at home is a big ol’ RED FLAG.
+ The Pac-10 is rounding into (muddy) shape.
+ I wanted to put Dayton in my top 25 last week, and now that they came out with a wire-to-wire win over Xavier, I have a little justification. They could really stand to score more efficiently, but I love their style.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connecticut | |
| 2 | Oklahoma | |
| 3 | North Carolina | |
| 4 | Pittsburgh | |
| 5 | Duke | |
| 6 | Wake Forest | |
| 7 | Louisville | |
| 8 | Clemson | |
| 9 | Villanova |  2 |
| 10 | Michigan St. | 2 |
| 11 | Marquette |  2 |
| 12 | Memphis | 1 |
| 13 | Xavier | 1 |
| 14 | UCLA | 1 |
| 15 | Washington | 1 |
| 16 | Missouri | 1 |
| 17 | Illinois | 2 |
| 18 | Gonzaga | |
| 19 | Butler | 9 |
| 20 | Kansas | |
| 21 | Purdue | |
| 22 | Arizona St. | |
| 23 | California | 1 |
| 24 | Utah | 1 |
| 25 | Dayton | |
| Last week’s ballot | ||
edit: here’s a link to this week’s blogpoll as a whole. I won the “Mr. Stubborn” award for not moving the ACC teams down! Heh. I see the point in moving Wake Forest down a slot or two, but I will be damned if I move a Memphis team up who hasn’t beaten anyone of not on the court (I won’t be rude and say anything about off the court), or Clemson, or Louisville (who I should move down – they are playing very poorly right now). But Wake is flawed, for sure.
