*Call for ballots*: BY25 Poll #6 (ballots due Mon., Feb. 1, at 11 ET)

[Plebe]

The sixth biweekly edition of the 2020-21 Boneyard Top 25 poll is rapidly approaching.

Ballots are due to me, via private message, by 11:00 a.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 1. (If you don't know how to send a PM, let me know in this thread and I will PM you first.) Please note: Ballots should reflect all games played through Sunday, Jan. 31.

Some notes and reminders:

• Early ballots are generally not allowed, unless accompanied by instructions for contingency scenarios. All ballots need to reflect the same body of work, i.e., all games played through Sunday.
• Please double-check your ballot for inadvertently repeated teams. This error is easy to make but not easy to catch. Here's a tip: Once you think you have your final rankings, copy them into Word, Excel or a similar program, and then sort the team names alphabetically. This should make it readily apparent if any team is listed twice.
• Full ballots (of 25 teams) are strongly 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.
• All voters are welcome regardless of fan base affiliation. The only requirement is to have a Boneyard account. Also, there is no requirement to have participated in previous polls.

 

[Plebe]

As an aid to voters, the results for BY25 teams since the Jan. 18 poll are shown below, along with the games still to be played this weekend.

Please remember that ballots should reflect all games played through Sunday.

(If you notice any mistakes or omissions, please let me know and I will correct.)

Team (points) <#1>	Wins	Losses	Jan. 30-31 games
1. Louisville (393) <12>	#20 Syracuse, 67-54 at Wake Forest, 65-63 Miami, 79-76 N. Carolina, 79-68	--	--
2. UConn (370) <2>	Butler, 103-35 at Tennessee, 67-61 Georgetown, 72-41	at #18 Arkansas, 87-90	at #15 DePaul
3. NC State (366) <2>	Virginia Tech, 89-87	at Virginia Tech, 71-83 OT	--
4. South Carolina (355)	#19 Arkansas, 104-82 #22 Georgia, 62-50 at LSU, 69-65 at Mississippi St, 75-52	--	Alabama
5. Stanford (354)	USC, 86-59 at Washington St, 71-49 at Washington St, 77-49	#7 UCLA, 66-70	at Washington
6. Maryland (293) <1>	Michigan St, 92-52	at #19 Ohio St, 86-88	--
7. UCLA (277)	at #5 Stanford, 70-66 Arizona St, 60-57	--	--
8. Texas A&M (269)	at Missouri, 70-66 at Auburn, 84-69	--	#23 Georgia
9. Michigan (253)	--	at #19 Ohio St, 77-81	--
10. Arizona (243)	Utah, 66-54	--	--
11. Baylor (231)	Oklahoma St, 77-58 Oklahoma, 84-61 TCU, 82-49	--	at Iowa St
12. Oregon (223)	Washington St, 58-50 Washington, 69-52	--	--
13. Kentucky (203)	at Auburn, 76-71 Alabama, 81-68	at Tennessee, 53-70	Missouri
14. South Florida (191)	--	--	--
15. DePaul (142)	at Butler, 80-66	--	#2 UConn
16. Gonzaga (119)	at Portland, 79-61 at Pacific, 77-65	--	at St. Mary's
17. Indiana (116)	at #22 Northwestern, 74-61	#19 Ohio St, 70-79	Michigan St
18. Arkansas (115)	#2 UConn, 90-87	at #4 S. Carolina, 82-104 at #23 Georgia, 73-75	Auburn
19. Ohio St (103)	#9 Michigan, 81-77 #6 Maryland, 88-86 at #17 Indiana, 78-70	--	--
20. Syracuse (88)	N. Carolina, 88-76 Pitt, 80-57	at #1 Louisville, 54-67 at Clemson, 77-86 OT	Notre Dame
21. Mississippi St (80)	--	#4 S. Carolina, 52-75	--
22. Northwestern (66)	Illinois, 73-54 at Iowa, 87-80	#17 Indiana, 61-74	--
23. Georgia (58)	#18 Arkansas, 75-73	at #4 S. Carolina, 50-62 LSU, 52-60	at #8 Texas A&M
24. South Dakota St (53)	N. Dakota, 81-52 N. Dakota, 66-44	--	--
25. Texas (41)	TCU, 71-54 at Iowa St, 70-59	at Oklahoma St, 51-68	Texas Tech
RV. Tennessee (38)	#13 Kentucky, 70-53 Ole Miss, 68-67	#2 UConn, 61-67	Florida
RV. West Virginia (34)	Kansas St, 65-56 at Texas Tech, 75-53	--	at TCU
RV. Missouri St (29)	Drake, 73-72 Drake, 78-63 S. Illinois, 61-44	--	at Valparaiso at Valparaiso
RV. Iowa (21)	Purdue, 87-81	#22 Northwestern, 80-87	at Minnesota
RV. Washington St (17)	at Oregon St, 77-75 2OT	at #12 Oregon, 50-58 #5 Stanford, 49-71 #5 Stanford, 49-77	--
RV. Iowa St (17)	Oklahoma, 64-63 at Kansas St, 62-60	#25 Texas, 59-70	#11 Baylor
RV. Michigan St (13)	at Wisconsin, 94-62	at #6 Maryland, 52-92	at #17 Indiana
RV. Nebraska (11)	at Illinois, 57-53 Wisconsin, 84-68	Minnesota, 71-76	--
RV. Villanova (6)	St. John's, 81-78 OT	Marquette, 77-95	at Butler
RV. Rice (5)	--	--	--
RV. FGCU (3)	Lipscomb, 103-49 Lipscomb, 92-48 at Stetson, 72-55	--	at Stetson

 

[triaddukefan]

In the receiving votes category. #37 High Point went down to defeat to the Mighty Blue Hose of Presbyterian 65-56. It was a rivalry game.

 

[Plebe]

In the receiving votes category. #37 High Point went down to defeat to the Mighty Blue Hose of Presbyterian 65-56. It was a rivalry game.

Perfectly understandable. The Panthers may even rise in the polls just for staying within 10 points.

Donning my poll organizer hat: Technically, "receiving votes" means on more than one ballot. The "appeared on only one ballot" category is separate

 

[triaddukefan]

should be interesting

 

[Tonyc]

UConn
Lville
NC State
SC
UCLA
Texas AM
Stanford
Maryland
Michigan
Baylor
Oregon
Kentucky
So Fla
Depaul
Arkansas
Arizona
Gonzaga
Indiana
Ohio St
Syracuse
Miss St
Northwestern
Georgia
South Dakota
Tenn

 

[Vowelguy]

1. UConn
2. Lville
3. NC State
4. SC
5. UCLA
6. Texas AM
7. Stanford
8. Maryland
9. Michigan
10. Baylor
11. Oregon
12. Kentucky
13. So Fla
14. Depaul
15. Arkansas
16. Arizona
17. Gonzaga
18. Indiana
19. Ohio St
20. Syracuse
21. Miss St
22. Northwestern
23. Georgia
24. South Dakota
25. Tenn

Ohio St beats MD, Michigan, and Indiana in the past 2 weeks but ends up behind all 3 in the poll.
While Tenn nearly beats "#1" UConn, easily beats #12 Kentucky, but ends up behind them + Miss St.
DePaul loses by 30 to UConn, ahead of Ark & Tenn.

Interesting.

 

[Vowelguy]

In the receiving votes category. #37 High Point went down to defeat to the Mighty Blue Hose of Presbyterian 65-56. It was a rivalry game.

Isn't Hose usually flesh colored? Is Presbyterian a school for those Avatar people? Smurfs? The Blue Meanies?

 

[triaddukefan]

Isn't Hose usually flesh colored? Is Presbyterian a school for those Avatar people? Smurfs? The Blue Meanies?

 

[Vowelguy]

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Aw c'mon. I thought my post was dyn-o-Mite.

 

[Plebe]

I appreciate everyone carrying the torch for this thread in my absence today, as I was in transit this afternoon.

I've updated the results table below. Although a number of people have submitted their ballots already, this might be helpful for those still working on theirs, or of course anyone is free to revise their ballot between now and the deadline.

Team (points) <#1>	Wins	Losses
1. Louisville (393) <12>	#20 Syracuse, 67-54 at Wake Forest, 65-63 Miami, 79-76 N. Carolina, 79-68	--
2. UConn (370) <2>	Butler, 103-35 at Tennessee, 67-61 Georgetown, 72-41 at #15 DePaul, 100-67	at #18 Arkansas, 87-90
3. NC State (366) <2>	Virginia Tech, 89-87	at Virginia Tech, 71-83 OT
4. South Carolina (355)	#19 Arkansas, 104-82 #22 Georgia, 62-50 at LSU, 69-65 at Mississippi St, 75-52 Alabama, 87-63	--
5. Stanford (354)	USC, 86-59 at Washington St, 71-49 at Washington St, 77-49 at Washington, 74-48	#7 UCLA, 66-70
6. Maryland (293) <1>	Michigan St, 92-52	at #19 Ohio St, 86-88
7. UCLA (277)	at #5 Stanford, 70-66 Arizona St, 60-57	--
8. Texas A&M (269)	at Missouri, 70-66 at Auburn, 84-69 #23 Georgia, 60-48	--
9. Michigan (253)	--	at #19 Ohio St, 77-81
10. Arizona (243)	Utah, 66-54	--
11. Baylor (231)	Oklahoma St, 77-58 Oklahoma, 84-61 TCU, 82-49 at Iowa St, 85-77	--
12. Oregon (223)	Washington St, 58-50 Washington, 69-52	--
13. Kentucky (203)	at Auburn, 76-71 Alabama, 81-68 Missouri, 61-55	at Tennessee, 53-70
14. South Florida (191)	--	--
15. DePaul (142)	at Butler, 80-66	#2 UConn, 67-100
16. Gonzaga (119)	at Portland, 79-61 at Pacific, 77-65 at St. Mary's, 76-52	--
17. Indiana (116)	at #22 Northwestern, 74-61 Michigan St, 79-67	#19 Ohio St, 70-79
18. Arkansas (115)	#2 UConn, 90-87 Auburn, 77-67	at #4 S. Carolina, 82-104 at #23 Georgia, 73-75
19. Ohio St (103)	#9 Michigan, 81-77 #6 Maryland, 88-86 at #17 Indiana, 78-70	--
20. Syracuse (88)	N. Carolina, 88-76 Pitt, 80-57 Notre Dame, 81-67	at #1 Louisville, 54-67 at Clemson, 77-86 OT
21. Mississippi St (80)	--	#4 S. Carolina, 52-75
22. Northwestern (66)	Illinois, 73-54 at Iowa, 87-80	#17 Indiana, 61-74
23. Georgia (58)	#18 Arkansas, 75-73	at #4 S. Carolina, 50-62 LSU, 52-60 at #8 Texas A&M, 48-60
24. South Dakota St (53)	N. Dakota, 81-52 N. Dakota, 66-44	--
25. Texas (41)	TCU, 71-54 at Iowa St, 70-59 Texas Tech, 72-53	at Oklahoma St, 51-68
RV. Tennessee (38)	#13 Kentucky, 70-53 Ole Miss, 68-67 Florida, 79-65	#2 UConn, 61-67
RV. West Virginia (34)	Kansas St, 65-56 at Texas Tech, 75-53 at TCU, 79-70	--
RV. Missouri St (29)	Drake, 73-72 Drake, 78-63 S. Illinois, 61-44 at Valparaiso, 61-51 at Valparaiso, 74-73	--
RV. Iowa (21)	Purdue, 87-81 at Minnesota, 94-68	#22 Northwestern, 80-87
RV. Washington St (17)	at Oregon St, 77-75 2OT	at #12 Oregon, 50-58 #5 Stanford, 49-71 #5 Stanford, 49-77
RV. Iowa St (17)	Oklahoma, 64-63 at Kansas St, 62-60	#25 Texas, 59-70 #11 Baylor, 77-85
RV. Michigan St (13)	at Wisconsin, 94-62	at #6 Maryland, 52-92 at #17 Indiana, 67-79
RV. Nebraska (11)	at Illinois, 57-53 Wisconsin, 84-68	Minnesota, 71-76
RV. Villanova (6)	St. John's, 81-78 OT at Butler, 90-53	Marquette, 77-95
RV. Rice (5)	--	--
RV. FGCU (3)	Lipscomb, 103-49 Lipscomb, 92-48 at Stetson, 72-55 at Stetson, 84-62	--

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[Plebe]

The polls will close in 3 hours (at 11 a.m Storrs time, 8 a.m. British Columbia time). The turnout has been solid so far, although I notice that some of our regulars must still be combing over their ballots

In perusing the results of the past two weeks, I'm particularly struck by what a remarkable fortnight Ohio State had, dispatching the 9th-, 6th- and 17th-ranked teams while preserving their undefeated record.

I'm also struck that yesterday was likely the first Sunday since the inception of the poll when no ranked team lost to a lower-ranked or unranked team. Truly an anomalously chalk day.

 

[Plebe]

It's last call, folks. Polls close in less than 15 minutes.

Sometimes I feel like I'm playing the Race Game, juggling the teams under pressure and then pulling the lever only to get bad news.

 

[Lorcan]

Pfft, last call? At least I voted this week, although Plebe will laugh at my dumpster fire of a ranking put together with little consideration at the last minute.

 

[Vowelguy]

It's last call, folks. Polls close in less than 15 minutes.

Sometimes I feel like I'm playing the Race Game, juggling the teams under pressure and then pulling the lever only to get bad news.

great game. Though not as good as Plinko ANNNNND:

The Price is Right - Cliffhangers Game

www.youtube.com

 

[Vowelguy]

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