The Best Freshman so far Poll

As you may have noticed we have posted a poll on this blog asking our readers to tell us which one is the best freshman so far. After 274 votes, it is a good time to take a look at the results and see what people think!

Michael Beasley is #1, with Eric Gordon following up at #2. Clearly the on-court performance has weighed in on the voters, and they have moved on past the preseason hoopla and hype. Which is precisely what we find at the #3 spot, where OJ Mayo and Derrick Rose are neck and neck (literally and figuratively) for the #3 spot. OJ Mayo won the on-court match-up on defense, as he and his fellow Trojans short-circuited Derrick Rose, but when Rose looked at the scoreboard, I'm sure he was smiling.

The battle for the #5 spot is between the Beached Whale with Passing Skills (Kevin Love) and Jerryd "O'Neill tough" Bayless, with Kyle "The Dookie" Singler following up.

At the bottom of the poll we find Thad Matta's Kosta Koufos and NC State's JJ Hickson.

Of course there's a number of other freshman that we could have (and should have) included in the poll, but we didn't want to have a poll with 20 or 30 names in it. It would be just too long.

Here are some other freshmen that I am suspecting were receiving votes in "Others receiving votes" category:

Patrick Patterson of Kentucky, who continues to showcase his skills and improve

Patrick Mills of Saint Mary's, which perhaps explains why they are winning left and right

Underrated space-eater DJ Blair at Pitt. He will have an interesting matchup with Kevin Love in the 2008 NCAA tournament when the selection committee ...pits Pitt against UCLA again for the ratings

Johnny Flynn and Donta Green at Syracuse

Corey Fisher at Villanova

Chris Wright at Dayton

Austin Daye at GoneZaga

Blake Griffin at Oklahoma

DeAndre Jordan at Texas A&M

Chandler Parsons at Florida

Forgot to mention AJ Ogilvy of Vandy and James Anderson of OKi State!

I could go on and on and on

Anyone else???