BY25 poll #6: Ballots due Monday (Jan. 13)

[Plebe]

The 6th biweekly edition of the Boneyard Top 25 poll is approaching. Ballots are due to me, via private message, by 11:00 a.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 13. (If you don't know how to send a PM, let me know in this thread and I will PM you first.) Ballots should reflect all games played through Sunday, Jan. 12.

As an aid to voters, the results for BY25 teams since the last poll of Dec. 30 are shown below (along with the games still to be played tomorrow).

Team (points) <#1 votes>	Wins	Losses	Jan. 10-12 games
1. UConn (385) <11>	Wichita St, 83-55 at SMU, 80-42	#6 Baylor, 58-74	Houston
2. Oregon St (372) <3>	Utah, 77-48 Colorado, 72-60	--	at #17 Arizona at Arizona St
3. Oregon (363) <1>	Colorado, 104-46 Utah, 88-51	--	at Arizona St at #17 Arizona
4. S. Carolina (352)	#16 Kentucky, 99-72 at Alabama, 93-78 Arkansas, 91-82	--	at Vanderbilt
5. Baylor (340) <1>	Morehead St, 94-47 at Oklahoma 77-56 at #1 UConn, 74-58	--	Oklahoma St
6. Stanford (336)	Washington State, 77-58 Washington, 77-56	--	Cal at Cal
7. Louisville (292)	at Clemson, 75-50 Duke, 60-55 at Miami, 87-41	--	Wake Forest
8. Florida St (286)	at Miami, 73-62	at Syracuse, 89-90 OT Georgia Tech, 52-67	North Carolina
9. NC State (271)	Virginia Tech, 76-69 Virginia, 80-60	at North Carolina, 60-66	at Notre Dame
10. UCLA (269)	Arizona State, 68-66 #17 Arizona, 70-58	--	at Utah at Colorado
11. Maryland (210)	Ohio State, 72-62	at Northwestern, 58-81 at Iowa, 61-66	at Michigan
12. Texas A&M (209)	at Arkansas, 84-77 Ole Miss, 79-35	LSU, 54-57	--
13T. MS State (185)	Florida, 93-47 at Georgia, 73-66 at Missouri, 79-64	--	--
13T. Indiana (185)	at Rutgers, 66-56 Illinois, 83-42 Purdue, 66-48	--	at Iowa
15. Gonzaga (173)	at BYU, 55-43 at San Diego, 57-42 St. Mary's, 74-49	--	Pacific
16. Kentucky (171)	#25 Tennessee, 80-76 at Alabama, 81-71	at #4 S. Carolina, 72-99	at Florida
17. Arizona (146)	at USC, 65-57	at #10 UCLA, 58-70	#2 Oregon State #3 Oregon
18. DePaul (142)	at Providence, 80-67 at Creighton, 74-71	--	Seton Hall St. John's
19. W. Virginia (93)	Cornell, 68-62 at Kansas State, 74-63 at Kansas, 68-49	--	Texas
20. Missouri St (85)	at Loyola Chicago, 74-72 OT at Valparaiso, 81-68		Drake Northern Iowa
21. S. Dakota (79)	at Purdue Fort Wayne, 62-41 Denver, 104-61	--	Omaha
22. Arkansas (56)	at Auburn, 86-70	#12 Texas A&M, 77-84 at #4 S. Carolina, 82-91	Missouri
23. Princeton (36)	--	--	at Penn
24. FGCU (32)	Lipscomb, 82-56 Liberty, 64-57	at Stetson	Howard
25. Tennessee (26)	Missouri, 77-66 at Ole Miss, 84-28	at #16 Kentucky, 76-80	Georgia
RV. Northwestern (25)	#11 Maryland, 81-58 at Minnesota, 56-54	Iowa, 51-77	Purdue
RV. Rutgers (19)	at Purdue, 59-53 at Illinois, 75-51	#13 Indiana, 56-66	Nebraska
RV. Minnesota (18)	--	Ohio State, 63-66 at Nebraska, 58-72 Northwestern, 54-56	at Illinois
RV. Texas (10)	at Iowa St, 81-75	TCU, 63-65	at #19 W. Virginia
RV. Colorado (7)	--	at #3 Oregon, 46-104 at #2 Oregon St, 60-72	USC UCLA
RV. LSU (4)	Alabama, 71-60 at #12 Texas A&M, 57-54	at Missouri, 65-69	Ole Miss

A few rules:

• Full ballots (of 25 teams) are encouraged; short ballots (of at least 10 teams) are accepted.
• No ties are allowed on a ballot. Each team on the ballot must have a unique ranking.
• Early ballots (before all poll-relevant games have been played) are accepted only if the voter provides "contingency ballots" or clear instructions regarding any potentially ballot-impacting outcomes.

Resources:

• BY25 poll #5 (Dec. 30)
• Warren Nolan's site (click on "Expanded AP Poll" or "Expanded Coaches Poll" to see latest results of teams in those polls).
• BY25 poll #4 (Dec. 16)
• BY25 poll #3 (Dec. 2)
• BY25 poll #2 (Nov. 18)
• BY25 preseason poll

 

[triaddukefan]

This might be the most difficult one yet.

 

[Lorcan]

I accidentally started doing my poll today, and then realized that it wasn't Monday. I'll echo that it's going to be rough, but hopefully some teams step up this weekend. If Indiana goes and loses, I'm just going to be flat out of luck.

 

[Bigboote]

This might be the most difficult one yet.

Yeah, I’m not even sure I’ll look at my last ballot as a starting point, and I hope Sunday isn’t as wacky as Thursday was.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Crazy. I think there are 30 teams that could win the national championship. Tennessee is big and strong, and not playing like a thoroughly demoralized team anymore. Indeed, it's Maryland that has gobs of talent, but which is playing like a HW team- grossly underperforming, and looking disgruntled.

Oregon just lost again. Insane.

The Sweet Sixteen could look like Upset City. FGCU, Princeton, and Missouri State could make the Elite Eight. If Princeton beats Penn today, it will mean that they cruise to a one-loss season. And Kentucky goes as far as Rhyne Howard takes them.

Texas could decide they'd like to start winning and upset a lot of good teams.

Louisville could decide the same, and, saying "go fish" to Walz, just go for it and upset a lot of people.

And North Carolina beat NC State? Who?

It's almost like the old expression: "Pick 'em!" Meaning, "who knows?"

Gonzaga is another that will hit the post-season likely without any more losses. They could surprise as well, coming out of nowhere, the Pacific Northwest....seems as though a lot of teams are coming out of the fog up there!

 

[Plebe]

Updating the results chart:

Team (points)	Wins	Losses	Jan. 12 games
1. UConn (385) <11>	Wichita St, 83-55 at SMU, 80-42 Houston, 91-51	#6 Baylor, 58-74	--
2. Oregon St (372) <3>	Utah, 77-48 Colorado, 72-60 at #17 Arizona, 63-61	--	at Arizona St
3. Oregon (363) <1>	Colorado, 104-46 Utah, 88-51	at Arizona St, 66-72	at #17 Arizona
4. S. Carolina (352)	#16 Kentucky, 99-72 at Alabama, 93-78 Arkansas, 91-82	--	at Vanderbilt
5. Baylor (340) <1>	Morehead St, 94-47 at Oklahoma 77-56 at #1 UConn, 74-58	--	Oklahoma St
6. Stanford (336)	Washington State, 77-58 Washington, 77-56 Cal, 73-40	--	at Cal
7. Louisville (292)	at Clemson, 75-50 Duke, 60-55 at Miami, 87-41	--	Wake Forest
8. Florida St (286)	at Miami, 73-62	at Syracuse, 89-90 OT Georgia Tech, 52-67	N. Carolina
9. NC State (271)	Virginia Tech, 76-69 Virginia, 80-60	at N. Carolina, 60-66	at Notre Dame
10. UCLA (269)	Arizona State, 68-66 #17 Arizona, 70-58 at Utah, 84-54	--	at Colorado
11. Maryland (210)	Ohio State, 72-62	at Northwestern, 58-81 at Iowa, 61-66	at Michigan
12. Texas A&M (209)	at Arkansas, 84-77 Ole Miss, 79-35	LSU, 54-57	--
13T. MS State (185)	Florida, 93-47 at Georgia, 73-66 at Missouri, 79-64	--	--
13T. Indiana (185)	at Rutgers, 66-56 Illinois, 83-42 Purdue, 66-48	--	at Iowa
15. Gonzaga (173)	at BYU, 55-43 at San Diego, 57-42 St. Mary's, 74-49 Pacific, 68-67	--	--
16. Kentucky (171)	#25 Tennessee, 80-76 at Alabama, 81-71	at #4 S. Carolina, 72-99	at Florida
17. Arizona (146)	at USC, 65-57	at #10 UCLA, 58-70 #2 Oregon St, 61-63	#3 Oregon
18. DePaul (142)	at Providence, 80-67 at Creighton, 74-71 Seton Hall, 85-68	--	St. John's
19. W. Virginia (93)	Cornell, 68-62 at Kansas State, 74-63 at Kansas, 68-49	--	Texas
20. Missouri St (85)	at Loyola Chicago, 74-72 OT at Valparaiso, 81-68 Drake, 69-67	--	Northern Iowa
21. S. Dakota (79)	at Purdue Fort Wayne, 62-41 Denver, 104-61 Omaha, 77-44	--	--
22. Arkansas (56)	at Auburn, 86-70	#12 Texas A&M, 77-84 at #4 S. Carolina, 82-91	Missouri
23. Princeton (36)	at Penn, 75-55	--	--
24. FGCU (32)	Lipscomb, 82-56 Liberty, 64-57 at Stetson, 89-47	--	--
25. Tennessee (26)	Missouri, 77-66 at Ole Miss, 84-28	at #16 Kentucky, 76-80	Georgia
RV. Northwestern (25)	#11 Maryland, 81-58 at Minnesota, 56-54	Iowa, 51-77	Purdue
RV. Rutgers (19)	at Purdue, 59-53 at Illinois, 75-51	#13 Indiana, 56-66	Nebraska
RV. Minnesota (18)	--	Ohio State, 63-66 at Nebraska, 58-72 Northwestern, 54-56	at Illinois
RV. Texas (10)	at Iowa St, 81-75	TCU, 63-65	at #19 W. Virginia
RV. Colorado (7)	USC, 66-53	at #3 Oregon, 46-104 at #2 Oregon St, 60-72	UCLA
RV. LSU (4)	Alabama, 71-60 at #12 Texas A&M, 57-54	at Missouri, 65-69	Ole Miss

 

[Plebe]

More casualties in the upper half of the rankings: #2 Oregon State loses to Arizona State, and #13 Indiana just lost in 2OT to Iowa.

Two potentially poll-relevant games still to be completed:

• Northwestern (top team in the "receiving votes" category) vs. Purdue just now underway.
• Stanford at Cal will begin at 8 ET.

 

[Lorcan]

Real footage of Lorcan trying to justify rankings. #upsetshavemercy #holybasketballintercedeandletnomorehappen

 

[Fairfield Fan]

More casualties in the upper half of the rankings: #2 Oregon State loses to Arizona State, and #13 Indiana just lost in 2OT to Iowa.

Two potentially poll-relevant games still to be completed:

• Northwestern (top team in the "receiving votes" category) vs. Purdue just now underway.
• Stanford at Cal will begin at 8 ET.

Greenwich's Abby Wolf having monster game- 20 of the 43 points! While Pullian is being held to just 4! Huge game!!!

 

[mbr33ct]

For this next poll, it may be better to work from #25 down to #1.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Now 22 points for Wolf!!

 

[Plebe]

Northwestern just hangs on to beat Purdue by 5. They gave Purdue every chance there down the stretch, and a game-tying 3 by Purdue just missed.

Stanford leads Cal by 7 at the half.

Team (points)	Wins	Losses
1. UConn (385) <11>	Wichita St, 83-55 at SMU, 80-42 Houston, 91-51	#6 Baylor, 58-74
2. Oregon St (372) <3>	Utah, 77-48 Colorado, 72-60 at #17 Arizona, 63-61	at Arizona St, 47-55
3. Oregon (363) <1>	Colorado, 104-46 Utah, 88-51 at #17 Arizona, 71-64	at Arizona St, 66-72
4. S. Carolina (352)	#16 Kentucky, 99-72 at Alabama, 93-78 Arkansas, 91-82 at Vanderbilt, 93-57	--
5. Baylor (340) <1>	Morehead St, 94-47 at Oklahoma 77-56 at #1 UConn, 74-58 Oklahoma St, 94-48	--
6. Stanford (336)	Washington State, 77-58 Washington, 77-56 Cal, 73-40 at Cal, 79-65	--
7. Louisville (292)	at Clemson, 75-50 Duke, 60-55 at Miami, 87-41 Wake Forest, 75-61	--
8. Florida St (286)	at Miami, 73-62 N. Carolina, 78-64	at Syracuse, 89-90 OT Georgia Tech, 52-67
9. NC State (271)	Virginia Tech, 76-69 Virginia, 80-60 at Notre Dame, 90-56	at N. Carolina, 60-66
10. UCLA (269)	Arizona State, 68-66 #17 Arizona, 70-58 at Utah, 84-54 at Colorado, 65-62	--
11. Maryland (210)	Ohio State, 72-62 at Michigan, 77-49	at Northwestern, 58-81 at Iowa, 61-66
12. Texas A&M (209)	at Arkansas, 84-77 Ole Miss, 79-35	LSU, 54-57
13T. MS State (185)	Florida, 93-47 at Georgia, 73-66 at Missouri, 79-64	--
13T. Indiana (185)	at Rutgers, 66-56 Illinois, 83-42 Purdue, 66-48	at Iowa, 85-91 2OT
15. Gonzaga (173)	at BYU, 55-43 at San Diego, 57-42 St. Mary's, 74-49 Pacific, 68-67	--
16. Kentucky (171)	#25 Tennessee, 80-76 at Alabama, 81-71 at Florida, 65-45	at #4 S. Carolina, 72-99
17. Arizona (146)	at USC, 65-57	at #10 UCLA, 58-70 #2 Oregon St, 61-63 #3 Oregon, 64-71
18. DePaul (142)	at Providence, 80-67 at Creighton, 74-71 Seton Hall, 85-68 St. John's, 74-69	--
19. W. Virginia (93)	Cornell, 68-62 at Kansas State, 74-63 at Kansas, 68-49 Texas, 68-63	--
20. Missouri St (85)	at Loyola Chicago, 74-72 OT at Valparaiso, 81-68 Drake, 69-67 Northern Iowa, 80-66	--
21. S. Dakota (79)	at Purdue Fort Wayne, 62-41 Denver, 104-61 Omaha, 77-44	--
22. Arkansas (56)	at Auburn, 86-70 Missouri, 90-73	#12 Texas A&M, 77-84 at #4 S. Carolina, 82-91
23. Princeton (36)	at Penn, 75-55	--
24. FGCU (32)	Lipscomb, 82-56 Liberty, 64-57 at Stetson, 89-47	--
25. Tennessee (26)	Missouri, 77-66 at Ole Miss, 84-28 Georgia, 73-56	at #16 Kentucky, 76-80
RV. Northwestern (25)	#11 Maryland, 81-58 at Minnesota, 56-54 Purdue, 61-56	Iowa, 51-77
RV. Rutgers (19)	at Purdue, 59-53 at Illinois, 75-51 Nebraska, 69-65	#13 Indiana, 56-66
RV. Minnesota (18)	--	Ohio State, 63-66 at Nebraska, 58-72 Northwestern, 54-56 at Illinois, 71-74
RV. Texas (10)	at Iowa St, 81-75	TCU, 63-65 at #19 W. Virginia, 63-68
RV. Colorado (7)	USC, 66-53	at #3 Oregon, 46-104 at #2 Oregon St, 60-72 UCLA, 62-65
RV. LSU (4)	Alabama, 71-60 at #12 Texas A&M, 57-54 Ole Miss, 52-44	at Missouri, 65-69

 

[Plebe]

And with Stanford's victory at Cal, that's a wrap on this week's games.

In the past fortnight, 8 of the top 14 teams lost to a lower-ranked or unranked opponent -- and two of them lost two such games.

 

[Plebe]

The ballots are starting to roll in. They're due in 12 hours (at 11 a.m. ET).

 

[TerpWomenFan]

This is going to be a rough one. I'll have a surprise at #1.

 

[Plebe]

Last call for ballots -- due to me in one hour (11 a.m. ET).

Thanks to all who have voted so far. Turnout has been very good.

 

[Plebe]

I'm awaiting clarification from one voter regarding a faulty ballot, but I can say that the race between #1 and #2 is VERY close.