Poll Watch, 2012-13 Edition

[capnkirk]

Happened to Utah State I believe 10-15 years ago. I believe they were ranked 22nd.

I believe it was Air Force you are thinking of.

[jdmee]

#29 in the AP Poll w/35 votes.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings

CU tied for 40th with 0 votes

[GoShockers89]

T-31 in the Coaches Poll w/12 votes

[MadaboutWu]

Memphis under Calipari.

Thanks. When was the last time it happened without imminent NCAA sanctions is the natural follow-up question.

[shockmonster]

How can you use CU this year to justify your assertion? Selections/seeding hasn't even been done yet. You'll have to show me evidence, such as quotes from committee members, that they pay attention to polls and use it during selection and seeding. Bracketologists, as far as I can tell, don't use polls to produce their brackets either. I've yet to read a bracketologist mention a team's AP ranking as a reason they put them 6th instead of 7th, for example. But I do see them use record against segments of the RPI, road/neutral performance, etc.

Officials always say that aren't influenced by the home crowd but in certain venues i think that they are even though they don't realize it. However, I can't prove it.

[wsushox1]

Honestly I don't know. UNLV back in the 90's but I'm pretty sure that Tarkinian ended up getting in trouble.

[shockerfan34]

About 10 years ago, The undefeated St. Joes team featuring Jameer Nelson and Delonte West was ranked number 1

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

Gonzaga got a vote for first and is ranked #2. I wonder when the last time a non-bcs school had that happen. Love to see it.

If Gonzaga loses to anyone but us for the national championship I'm gonna be pissed. I've been waiting a long time for the BCS schools' stranglehold on the title to end, and not one program has been more consistent in this crazy year of upsets than Gonzaga.

[Shockeriffic]

Honestly I don't know. UNLV back in the 90's but I'm pretty sure that Tarkinian ended up getting in trouble.

The NCAA also paid Tarkanian 2.5 million dollars for all the trouble they caused him.

[jocoshock]

We are right where we want to be and need to be right now. Playing better with ascending momentum heading into St. Louis. Keep the momentum going, get the best seed possible (avoid 8-9 if possible), and a make some great noise in the tourney!!

[ABC]

I always loved how Tark would not bow down to the NCAA. He had a great comment: Yea, the NCAA got so mad at Kentucky they put Cleveland State on probation.

[ShockerFever]

In regards to the polls, not bad.

It's gotta hurt sCUm fan to see their National Championship contender down to not a single vote. Has that occurred at all this year with us?

[Dave Stalwart]

CU tied for 40th with 0 votes

Haha :)

Tied for 40th? Or tied for 222nd?

[MadaboutWu]

Haha :)

Tied for 40th? Or tied for 222nd?

A big group is bunched around 40th.