*Call for ballots*: final BY25 poll (NOTE: due Sun., Mar. 13 at 6p ET)

[Plebe]

The 10th and FINAL biweekly edition of the 2021-22 Boneyard Top 25 poll is approaching.

Please note the unusual deadline. Because the selection show has been moved from Monday to Sunday, I am moving the ballot deadline from our usual Monday morning time to Sunday evening before the selection show.

Ballots are due to me, via private message, by 6:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 13, 2022. (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 the afternoon of Sunday, March 13.

Note: The last of the conference tournament finals (including the Big 12's) are scheduled to tip off at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. This means our window between completion of all relevant games and the voting deadline is greatly compressed. There will be roughly two hours between the end of these games and the deadline (assuming, hopefully, that none go to overtime!).​

The poll is open to anyone, regardless of fan base affiliation, who has a Boneyard account. There is no need to have participated in previous polls to submit a ballot for this one.

Some notes and reminders:

• Early ballots are generally not allowed. Ballots should reflect all games played through Sunday, March 13. Please don't submit your ballot until all potentially ballot-impacting games have been decided.
• Please double-check your ballot for errors, duplications, and omissions. Having the same team listed twice is the most common flaw. Here's a tip: Once you think you have your final rankings, copy them into Word or 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.

For reference, previous polls from this season are linked below:

• Poll #9 (Feb. 28)
• Poll #8 (Feb. 14)
• Poll #7 (Jan. 31)
• Poll #6 (Jan. 17)
• Poll #5 (Jan. 3)
• Poll #4 (Dec. 20)
• Poll #3 (Dec. 6)
• Poll #2 (Nov. 23)
• Preseason poll (Nov. 8)

 

[Plebe]

Giving this a bump.

Questions:

• South Carolina remained #1 in the AP poll despite losing to Kentucky. Will the same happen in the Boneyard poll?
• Do teams like Kentucky, Miami and Utah surge into the top 25 after their runs in their conference tournaments?

**Please note the early deadline: tomorrow (Sunday) at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Below are the results since the latest poll (Feb. 28):

	Wins	Losses	Mar. 12-13
1. S. Carolina	Arkansas 76-54 Ole Miss 61-51	Kentucky 62-64	--
2. Stanford	Oregon St 57-44 Colorado 71-45 Utah 73-48	--	--
3. NC State	Florida St 84-54 #21 VA Tech 70-55 Miami 60-47	--	--
4. Louisville	--	Miami 59-61	--
5. Baylor	at #8 Iowa St 87-62 TX Tech 82-57 OK State 76-36	--	#18 Oklahoma [possible final]
6. LSU	--	Kentucky 63-78	--
7. UConn	Georgetown 84-38 Marquette 71-51 Villanova 70-40	--	--
8. Iowa St	at W. Virginia 74-57 W. Virginia 66-60	#5 Baylor 62-87	#10 Texas [possible final]
9. Michigan		Nebraska 73-76	--
10. Texas	at Kansas 70-60 OK State 65-50 Kansas St 72-65	--	#8 Iowa St [possible final]
11. Maryland	--	#14 Indiana 51-62	--
12. Arizona	--	Colorado 43-45	--
13. Iowa	N'western 72-59 Nebraska 83-66 #14 Indiana 74-67	--	--
14. Indiana	Rutgers 66-54 #11 Maryland 62-51 #15 Ohio St 70-62	#13 Iowa 67-74	--
15. Ohio St	Mich. St 74-58	#14 Indiana 62-70	--
16. BYU	Portland 59-52	Gonzaga 59-71	--
17. N. Carolina	--	#21 VA Tech 80-87 ot	--
18. Oklahoma	at OK St 79-76 Kansas 80-68	Kansas 67-73	#5 Baylor [possible final]
19. Tenn.	Alabama 74-59	Kentucky 74-83	--
20. Notre D.	GA Tech 71-53	Miami 54-57	--
21. VA Tech	Clemson 82-60 #17 UNC 87-80 ot	#3 NC State 55-70	--
22. FGCU	N. Florida 71-60 Stetson 82-67	--	Jacksonville St
23. UCF	Tulsa 61-48 Tulsa 69-54 SMU 61-28 S. Florida 53-45	--	--
24. Georgia	--	Alabama 62-74	--
25. Oregon	UCLA 63-60	Utah 73-80	--
RV. Florida	Vanderbilt 53-52	Ole Miss 60-70	--
RV. GA Tech	W. Forest 45-40	#20 ND 53-71	--
RV. Dayton	Davidson 60-55 ot VCU 59-48	UMass 56-62	--
RV. Ole Miss	Florida 70-60	#1 SC 51-61	--
RV. Missouri St	at Valpo 66-46 Drake 63-49	at Loyola-Chi. 42-60	Northern Iowa [possible final]
RV. Princeton	Penn 69-43 at Harvard 73-53 at Harvard 72-67	--	Columbia

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[TheFarmFan]

Bumping this because I just realized we need to vote by tomorrow, not Monday! (plus we have one less hour to do it. )

 

[MSGRET]

Bumping this because I just realized we need to vote by tomorrow, not Monday! (plus we have one less hour to do it. )

I plan on having everything finalized except for maybe the top 10 teams which I will have different scenarios on the outcome of the Big 12 final.

 

[TheFarmFan]

Bumping this because I just realized we need to vote by tomorrow, not Monday! (plus we have one less hour to do it. )

I plan on having everything finalized except for maybe the top 10 teams which I will have different scenarios on the outcome of the Big 12 final.

+1. I'm struggling with how much to reward body of work versus who's good now, because TBH, as the fan of a probable 1 Seed (Stanford), as of right now, I'd actually rather face either of NC State or Louisville in the Elite Eight than Baylor or UConn...

 

[MSGRET]

+1. I'm struggling with how much to reward body of work versus who's good now, because TBH, as the fan of a probable 1 Seed (Stanford), as of right now, I'd actually rather face either of NC State or Louisville in the Elite Eight than Baylor or UConn...

So would a lot of other teams. There are many hoping to stay out of UConn's or Baylor's bracket, they just aren't saying so. How would you like to be a #1 seed and have UConn in as your #2? I wouldn't if I was a coach or a fan. It's just the fans that will say anything, the coach will keep quite and steam later if they happen to lose. I really think that Baylor will be the 4th #1 seed if they win tomorrow, so Stanford wouldn't meet them until the Final Four according to Charlie.

 

[TheFarmFan]

So would a lot of other teams. There are many hoping to stay out of UConn's or Baylor's bracket, they just aren't saying so. How would you like to be a #1 seed and have UConn in as your #2? I wouldn't if I was a coach or a fan. It's just the fans that will say anything, the coach will keep quite and steam later if they happen to lose. I really think that Baylor will be the 4th #1 seed if they win tomorrow, so Stanford wouldn't meet them until the Final Four according to Charlie.

Yeah I think that's very realistic. So send NC State to Bridgeport to meet UConn!

 

[Plebe]

All but two of our BY25 teams have completed play. The Baylor-Texas tilt tomorrow (tipoff at 2 pm Eastern) will wrap things up. Ballots are due at 6p ET.

Updating the results table:

	Wins	Losses	Mar. 13
1. S. Carolina	Arkansas 76-54 Ole Miss 61-51	Kentucky 62-64	--
2. Stanford	Oregon St 57-44 Colorado 71-45 Utah 73-48	--	--
3. NC State	Florida St 84-54 #21 VA Tech 70-55 Miami 60-47	--	--
4. Louisville	--	Miami 59-61	--
5. Baylor	at #8 Iowa St 87-62 TX Tech 82-57 OK State 76-36 #18 Oklahoma 91-76	--	#10 Texas
6. LSU	--	Kentucky 63-78	--
7. UConn	Georgetown 84-38 Marquette 71-51 Villanova 70-40	--	--
8. Iowa St	at W. Virginia 74-57 W. Virginia 66-60	#5 Baylor 62-87 #10 Texas 73-82 ot	--
9. Michigan		Nebraska 73-76	--
10. Texas	at Kansas 70-60 OK State 65-50 Kansas St 72-65 #8 Iowa St 82-73 ot	--	#5 Baylor
11. Maryland	--	#14 Indiana 51-62	--
12. Arizona	--	Colorado 43-45	--
13. Iowa	N'western 72-59 Nebraska 83-66 #14 Indiana 74-67	--	--
14. Indiana	Rutgers 66-54 #11 Maryland 62-51 #15 Ohio St 70-62	#13 Iowa 67-74	--
15. Ohio St	Mich. St 74-58	#14 Indiana 62-70	--
16. BYU	Portland 59-52	Gonzaga 59-71	--
17. N. Carolina	--	#21 VA Tech 80-87 ot	--
18. Oklahoma	at OK St 79-76 Kansas 80-68	Kansas 67-73 #5 Baylor 76-91	--
19. Tenn.	Alabama 74-59	Kentucky 74-83	--
20. Notre D.	GA Tech 71-53	Miami 54-57	--
21. VA Tech	Clemson 82-60 #17 UNC 87-80 ot	#3 NC State 55-70	--
22. FGCU	N. Florida 71-60 Stetson 82-67 Jacksonville St 69-54	--	--
23. UCF	Tulsa 61-48 Tulsa 69-54 SMU 61-28 S. Florida 53-45	--	--
24. Georgia	--	Alabama 62-74	--
25. Oregon	UCLA 63-60	Utah 73-80	--
RV. Florida	Vanderbilt 53-52	Ole Miss 60-70	--
RV. GA Tech	W. Forest 45-40	#20 ND 53-71	--
RV. Dayton	Davidson 60-55 ot VCU 59-48	UMass 56-62	--
RV. Ole Miss	Florida 70-60	#1 SC 51-61	--
RV. Missouri St	at Valpo 66-46 Drake 63-49	at Loyola-Chi. 42-60 Northern Iowa 57-63	--
RV. Princeton	Penn 69-43 at Harvard 73-53 at Harvard 72-67 Columbia 77-59	--	--

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[Plebe]

Just a reminder that ballots will be due in 3 hours.

Assuming no overtime (please no), that'll be about 2 hours after the end of the Baylor-Texas game.

 

[Plebe]

Final score:
Texas 67
Baylor 58

 

[Plebe]

Ballots due in one hour. Last call.

 

[Plebe]

Just about 20 minutes to go.

Despite the rushed timeframe, please do give your ballots one last look-over to ensure no repeated teams. (If you haven't heard from me yet, your ballot was fine )

 

[triaddukefan]

Just rushed back home just to complete and fill in the bracket. Job Done. Gotta give thanks to Cheerwine and the Highway Patrol (not stopping me)

 

[Lorcan]

Submitted

Just about 20 minutes to go.

Despite the rushed timeframe, please do give your ballots one last look-over to ensure no repeated teams. (If you haven't heard from me yet, your ballot was fine )

Is there no judgement for the questionable choices that I made in my rankings given that I was filling it out with a sangria in hand?