Week #5 of the Blog Poll Top 25 is published!

Yes basketball fans, week #5 of the BlogPoll Top 25 has been published by our great blog administrator at March To Madness. You can see the Top 25 standings along with how each blog voted in this HMTL-based Google Spreadsheet (opens in the browser like any other page, no need for Excel!)

Here is the list of participating blogs. If you are a college hoops blogger and interested in joining, just let any of the participating bloggers know.

So what do we have in the Top 25? Carolana is #1 with 8 #1 votes, the Calipari Tigers are #2 with 5 #1 votes, and the Rick Barnes Experience is at #3 with 1 #1 vote. Then we have the Kansas Jayhawks at #4 who apparently have decided to play all the teams that could beat them in the first round of the NCAA so they can avoid them in the tourney (Miami of Ohio: CHECK, but they can't avoid the Davidson Wildcats!)

The nasty neo-Dookies are at #5, with the slugfest Bruins at #6, and the big fun-da-mentals of Georgetown and Washington State at #7 and #8.

The #9 spot, with quite a bit of a voting distance goes to Izzo State, who earned my higher vote after beating the BYU Sinners in Utah. Izzo's friend Tom "I recruited Dwyane Wade" Crean rounds up the top ten at #10 after beating the low-ceiling Wisconsin Badgers at their place.

Then we have Texas A&M, Indiana, Tennessee (way too high based on what they have done on the court - I voted them #24), Butler and the Nike Ducks.

At #16 we have the X-men who face Cincy tonight in a Nutty affair, my "favorite" two teams to pick on Pitt and Clemson (I did not vote either one of them in the top 25, don't blame me; although I do believe that DJ Blair was underrated by scouting services), Vandy and the ...Caracter-less Pitinoville Cardinals. Please keep in mind that the Caracter news broke while about half of the bloggers had already voted. Expect Louiville to fade out even more unless things change.

The bottom of the top 25 is occupied by GoneZaga, Miami of Florida (give us some RPI respect baby!), Saint Mary's (before they lost to the Southern Illinois Ultimate CageMatch Fighting squad), the neo-Arizona O'Neill MeerCats, and the BYU Sinners.

Just on the outside looking in are West Hugginsville, Villanova who gets no love (let's not forget their loss to NC State came because of a phantom 0:00 call), USC Divas, Stanford SmartyPants, Rhode "Linc Chafee is gone" Island, Wisconsin and the Jon Stewart Dayton Flyers.

No other teams received votes in this week's edition of the BlogPoll Top 25, which is quite interesting that 12 different people voted yet only 32 teams received top 25 votes. Are we clones? :)

So what do you think? How does it compare to the AP/Coaches Poll? The Power Rankings? The RPI/SOS? The Sagarin Ratings? The Common Sense Index? The Eyeballs Indicator? The Majerus Approach?


What are the other BlogPoll Voters saying about Week #5?
March to Madness reports week #5 and has a celebrity "reacting" to the votes. They also offer their MWC perspective on BYU.

SEC The Good The Bad The Dirty and The UnTold Secrets analyzes the movers and shakers in this week's Top 25.

APIAS has a pictorial representation of their blogpoll vote.

Storming the Court dissects the picks and tries to sort out the middle of the poll which feels like a roll of the dice.

Vegas Watch dissects the SOS numbers of the top teams in the polls. Read them and you will see Tennessee, Pitt and Kansas exposed, while Butler getting a lot of "sauce".

The College Hoops Journal compares the BlogPoll Top 25 with the Traditional Poll Top 25.

Super Scintillating and Sarcastic analyzes the top 25 and their own entry as well.

March Madness All Season reports on week #5 of the blog poll and has a brief intro on the poll for anyone who is reading about it for the first time or interested in joining up.