sportingnews.com - 10/29/2009
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A year ago, the folks who voted in The Associated Press preseason poll ranked North Carolina as college basketball's No. 1 team, which turned out to be kind of like those 400 points you get on the SAT for spelling your own name correctly.
Their score slipped a bit, however, on account of them picking UCLA No. 4. The Bruins became a No. 6 seed in their NCAA Tournament region.
That's OK. The voters get another shot this year, like every year, and Thursday the AP released the preseason poll for ...
the5thcorner.com - 10/26/2009
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the5thcorner.com —
Today was the Atlantic Coast Conference’s annual Basketball
Media Day. The media voted on how they see...
the standings for the 2009-10 season. No surprise that North Carolina is one of the top teams, or that Duke would be one as well, maybe the only surprise is that the two programs got ...
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The media voted and…
searchingforbillyedelin.com - 10/27/2009
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searchingforbillyedelin.com —
So UNC cut down the nets last spring,
lost 68 percent of their scoring, lost the nation's...
top point guard and the nation's blandest spokesman for AT&T; , yet their still top dogs in the ACC. Sometimes, college basketball stinks. The Tar ...
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Your obligatory ACC primer
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... Teague and Johnson going pro, Wake Forest is still good - The Dagger breaks down Florida International - California first in Pac-10 preseason rankings - Colorado's Shannon Sharpe is having season-ending knee surgery. - Which USC? - Stanford's Jeremy Green is suspended indefinitly - Naismith Award top 50 is unveiled - Andy Katz on Georgetown's key to sucess - Mike DeCourcy's breakdown of top 25 - Seth Davis on the "flop" rule - The best backcourt ...
Dissecting the preseason AP, coaches Top 25
Beyond the Arc —
... Sporting News writer Mike DeCourcy also takes apart the two polls. The flaws (Georgia Tech, Louisville ranked and Michigan overrated), while he says voters are underrating Georgetown and Wake Forest (which was essentially 35th.) ...
DeCourcy gets right what the AP couldn’t
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[image] It’s no secret around here that we like The Sporting News‘ Mike DeCourcy. And if it was a secret, well I just screwed that up by telling you jokers, didn’t I? Regardless, DeCourcy has been a friend of the site, even taking time out of his busy schedule as TSN’s senior basketball writer to let one of our blogger contestants interview him as part of the contest. Well, not only is he a heck of a nice guy, he just might be the smartest sportswriter in the world. He posted his take on the AP poll that was released today, and had a couple of tidbits that might be ...
Bear Market?
yoco :: College Basketball —
I couldn't agree more with The Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy . I too am shocked -- shocked -- that Mick Cronin's Cincinnati Bearcats didn't receive a single Top 25 vote. Cronin can flat out coach and Deonta Vaughn, Yancy Gates, and Lance Stephenson are as good a threesome as you'll find in the Big East. It is only a matter of time until the Bearcats win their way into the rankings.
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