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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3871528, member: 199"] Looking at the AP ranking this week in a wide angle view I think is a pretty good indication - by wide angle I mean, not who is first or second, but how teams break into groups. Here are the point spreads in the voting: [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]44 16 [B]#1 Seeds[/B] [U]15[/U][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(85, 57, 130)][B]67[/B] 1 [B]#2 Seeds[/B] 29 [U]10[/U][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)][B]65[/B] [U]15[/U] [B]#3 Seeds[/B][U][/U] [B]54 62[/B][/COLOR] What that signifies to me is the AP voters after the games on Sunday have pretty clearly defined the #1 seeds and the #2 seeds. They see a clear difference between Stanford, NC State, TA&M and Uconn as one seeds, and the universe of Baylor, Louisville, Maryland, and SC. And then they see a clear break from those 4 and the next two teams UCLA and Indiana, and another break from the rest of the teams. Not saying AP voters are the final word, but their top ten tends to be pretty good and the way their voting has so clearly fallen into 4 sections 1-4, 5-8, 9-10, and the rest is a pretty clear indicator of consensus across 30 very diverse voters. Within each of the groups the voting is much closer except between 1 and 2, which is probably indicative of 'you are #1 until you lose' inertia more than a clear preference. Obviously there are tournaments to play and a upset of any of the top 10 might change their position in a group or their group, but I'm not sure the top ten have so nicely grouped into 1 seeds, 2 seeds, and top 2 three seeds in a ranking at the end of a regular season before. [/QUOTE]

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