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Unanimous #1 in coaches' poll
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probably in about 15 minutes.
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Wow, Murray State now #10. Hard to know how good they really are.
UConvicts up 5 to #11. That's OK, they have 2 good beatdowns coming in their future when they play SU.
UConvicts up 5 to #11. That's OK, they have 2 good beatdowns coming in their future when they play SU.
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I just tried finding where Ron Morris had us. They haven't updated poll stalker yet.http://www.pollspeak.com/component/...1,/t1_1,/t2,/t2_1,/v,427/v_1,427/w,10/w_1,10/
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This is the week we'll find out about Baylor - at Kansas and home to Mizzou. If they win both of those in solid fashion, then I would say they are a legit Final 4 team.
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Talking about that last night with a friend. I told him I think they lose 2 in a row this week. He laughed.
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The article that came with that said
"Is Baylor the best team in the country?
The Bears have had some of the most impressive road wins of the season ... but they have not been able to jump Kentucky or Syracuse in the USA TODAY/ESPN men's basketball coaches poll -- at least not yet."
(not as impressive if they'd dig a little bit under the surface as I did in another thread)
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Who votes is listed at the bottom. I don't know how they're selected: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/usatpoll.htm
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This is how Morris voted week 11
Week Team Rank
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Kentucky 1
Syracuse 2
Baylor 3
North Carolina 4
Ohio St. 5
Missouri 6
UConn 7
Duke 8
Michigan St. 9
Louisville 10
Florida 11
Kansas 12
Georgetown 13
Mississippi St. 14
Michigan 15
Indiana 16
Wisconsin 17
Marquette 18
San Diego St. 19
Murray St. 20
UNLV 21
Virginia 22
Vanderbilt 23
Creighton 24
Harvard 25
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/extern..._basketball/men/index.php?SITE=AP&name=MORRIS
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Okay, so it wasn't Ron Morris who voted SU #3. It was Jason Franchuk, the same guy who voted Baylor #1. So he jumped Baylor over both SU and UK.
Let him know how you feel about that here: https://twitter.com/#!/harkthefranchuk (And yes, a professional journalist calls himself "The Franchuk.")
Let him know how you feel about that here: https://twitter.com/#!/harkthefranchuk (And yes, a professional journalist calls himself "The Franchuk.")
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Carolina at 4? He must have been impressed by them this weekend.
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Is he still in high school?
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Could his vote be called the 81-78 affect?
Yup Jason Franchuk of the Daily Herald, Provo, UT he's a BYU reporter and a Kansas grad who's wife is also a Kansas girl. Harboring any grudges from 2003?
BYU lost by 3 to Baylor that must have impressed him to no end.
I researched BYU to see what a great win that was for Baylor:
Baylor just escaped by 3 over BYU on the road giving up 83 points. The Jimmerless BYU squad has lost to Utah St by 7, to Wisconsin by 17 and to St Mary's by 16.
His bio:
"When not writing about himself in the third person, sportswriter Jason Franchuk primarily covers the day‒to‒day happenings of the BYU men's basketball team for the Daily Herald. He's also the full‒of‒opinion (and often full of himself, right?) columnist during Cougar football season. Franchuk moved to Utah in 2003 shortly after graduating from the Univ. of Kansas. The job has taken him all over this fair country, plus Russia, but for as worldly as he may seem his biggest flaw is that he doesn't think Laramie is that bad."
jfranchuk@heraldextra.com
my.heraldextra.com/JasonFranchuk
Here is his ballot
Baylor 1
Kentucky 2
Syracuse 3
Duke 4
Ohio St. 5
Missouri 6
Kansas 7
North Carolina 8
Indiana 9
Michigan St. 10
UNLV 11
UConn 12
Murray St. 13
Virginia 14
Georgetown 15
Florida 16
Mississippi St. 17
Michigan 18
Louisville 19
San Diego St. 20
Saint Mary's (Cal) 21
Creighton 22
Marquette 23
Illinois 24
Wisconsin 25
