Here's the AP Top 25...

1. Kansas (55) 22-1 1,613
2. Syracuse (8) 23-1 1,553
3. Kentucky (2) 22-1 1,514
4. Villanova 20-2 1,366
5. West Virginia 19-3 1,361
6. Purdue 19-3 1,301
7. Georgetown 17-5 1,211
8. Duke 19-4 1,142
9. Kansas State 19-4 1,139
10. Michigan State 19-5 968
11. Wisconsin 18-5 871
12. Tennessee 18-4 850
13. Ohio State 18-6 845
14. Texas 19-4 789
15. New Mexico 21-3 725
16. Gonzaga 19-4 693
17. Brigham Young 22-3 532
18. Butler 20-4 422
19. Northern Iowa 21-2 298
20. Georgia Tech 17-6 269
21. Temple 19-5 223
22. Vanderbilt 17-5 222
23. UNLV 19-4 209
24. Baylor 17-5 202
25. Pittsburgh 17-6 149

Others Receiving Votes: Texas A&M 115, Cornell 114, Wake Forest 109, Maryland 69, Charlotte 48, UTEP 33, Mississippi 30, Rhode Island 30, Saint Mary's 18, Siena 18, Illinois 16, Florida State 15, Virginia Tech 11, Marquette 10, UAB 7, Wichita State 5, Richmond 5, Missouri 3, South Florida 2.

NOTE: Congrats to the Bulls for getting a couple of votes...

Here's the ESPN/USA Top 25...

1. Kansas (29) 22-1 773
2. Kentucky (1) 22-1 731
3. Syracuse (1) 23-1 728
4. West Virginia 19-3 657
5. Villanova 20-2 639
6. Purdue 19-3 599
7. Duke 19-4 574
8. Georgetown 17-5 560
9. Kansas State 19-4 506
10. Michigan State 19-5 455
11. Gonzaga 19-4 427
12. Tennessee 18-4 417
13. Wisconsin 18-5 401
14. Texas 19-4 361
15. Butler 20-4 326
16. Ohio State 18-6 302
17. Brigham Young 22-3 298
18. Northern Iowa 21-2 221
19. New Mexico 21-3 211
20. Georgia Tech 17-6 150
21. Temple 19-5 131
22. Cornell 20-3 112
23. Pittsburgh 17-6 89
24. Vanderbilt 17-5 76
25. UNLV 19-4 55

Others Receiving Votes: Baylor 44, Texas A&M 37, Saint Mary's 29, Siena 28, Rhode Island 28, Missouri 25, Maryland 18, Mississippi 16, Virginia Tech 10, Florida State 8, Wake Forest 7, UAB 7, Notre Dame 6, Clemson 4, Tulsa 4, Dayton 2, Xavier 1, Connecticut 1, Louisiana Tech 1.

NOTE: Frankly, I think the polls are a slap in the face of The BEast. We have 3 teams in the top 5, and 4 in the top 10. Yet neither poll has a BEast team ranked #1, and the ESPN/USA poll has our teams ranked #3, #4, and #5. What makes #1 or #2 better than our best? I wonder where either of those 2 teams would be currently in the conference race if they played in The BEast. I just wonder...

Also, that UConn vote was a... :homer:

No matter how you slice it, two one seeds and two two seeds. Since the BE two seeds would go to different brackets from the one seeds, that means any non-BE team that's making it to the title game has to go through two BE teams to win it all- should seeding hold up. (Because the two one seeds will come from the east and west side of the bracket)

(02-08-2010 06:23 PM)KnightChris Wrote:  Wow. Seeing Pitt (#23) behind Cornell (#22) just looks weird... but awesome!

Other thoughts:

Who the heck voted for UConn? ... I have no problem with Notre Dame getting a couple votes, as long as that's all it is... I actually would like to see a little more love for Marquette. I tend to think the coaches do a better job at this than the AP, so I agree with them throwing Marquette a tiny bit of love in the "others receiving votes." ... USF got thrown a vote or two as its reward for that little winning streak. It'll probably disappear next week but they deserved some recognition for the streak, however brief it may have been... the razor thin margin between Kentucky & 'Cuse (a mere 3 points) in the coaches poll continues to torment me. Oh so close to being the undisputed #2 (and a bad K-State OT period from being #1).

nice backhanded compliment there, are you still pretending to be a ucf fan?