AVCA poll 10/8/07

[SpanglerFan316]

http://www.avca.org/collegiate/dipoll/dipoll10-8-07.asp

Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: Louisville 85; Middle Tennessee 78; Sacramento State 63; Pepperdine 52; BYU 38; Long Beach State 37; Wichita State 20; Iowa State 14; Missouri State 8; UNLV 7; Santa Clara 6; Clemson 3; Miami (OH) 3.

http://volleytalk.proboards88.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1191870489

[SpanglerFan316]

I assume "Fair Use" allows for the posting of a small part of the poll. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?s...70907195435565 If I am wrong, admins please remove the part beginning Others Receiving Votes. Thanks.

[RoyalShock]

It's cool.

We're getting more votes, which is good. We really need to root for Santa Clara to make their way back into the top 25. Unless a number of teems ahead of us begin to stumble, we have no opportunity to get there ourselves. And as Shocker fans know, even that is no guarantee of a tournament invite.

Having played ranked teams won't mean much if we didn't beat any of them.

[WuDrWu]

I am always going to look for the negative but it seems odd that MSU drops from 46 votes to 8 and we only gain from 9 to 20.


MSU pounded some quality teams early in the season.


FWIW, I noticed there are 3 Valley coaches that have votes (ISU, MSU and UNI) as well as 3 Big12 coaches (CU, KSU and UT). Other opponents that had votes include Hawaii, Denver and Santa Clara.


That's seven coaches that have seen us. 4 of those coaches were taken to the shed by the Wahine Shockers and the other 3 most likely would have a fair amount of respect for WSU. To me, something doesn't add up.

Also I've looked at some of the other teams, ranked ahead of WSU and I see very little reason to rank some ahead of WSU. I realize my bias, but you would be hard pressed to convince me that CSU or St John's, for instance, have a better resume than our ladies do.

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