Prediction: Point Total in next week's AP Poll

[talksalot]

Here is the 11/28 poll results for the after-25.

Others receiving votes: Maryland 126, Notre Dame 85, Cincinnati 49, Michigan State 28, Ohio State 22, Michigan 13, Temple 8, USC 7, Houston 6, Florida State 5, VCU 5, California 3, Tennessee State 2, Virginia Tech 1, Arkansas State 1, San Diego State 1, Colorado 1, Minnesota 1, Rutgers 1

What will the Valpo "Vote Total" be?

[vufan75]

2.

[VUfan]

 After-25, is that the Mid Major Division of the Poll. 

[talksalot]

unless you are called Zag or St. Marys.... yes... although I kinda sorta thought of the A10 as a Mid-Major...

1 Kentucky (40)  6-0 1,590
2 Villanova (20)  6-0 1,567
3 North Carolina (4)  7-0 1,497
4 Kansas 5-1 1,414
5 Duke 6-1 1,365
6 Virginia 6-0 1,286
7 Xavier 6-0 1,181
8 Gonzaga 6-0 1,112
9 Baylor (1)  6-0 1,068
10 Creighton 6-0 965
11 UCLA 7-0 955
12 Saint Mary's 5-0 866
13 Indiana 4-1 857
14 Louisville 5-1 808
15 Purdue 5-1 687
16 Arizona 5-1 655
17 Wisconsin 5-2 555
18 Butler 6-0 506
19 Iowa State 5-1 389
20 South Carolina 6-0 379
21 Rhode Island 5-1 354
22 Syracuse 4-1 229
23 Oregon 4-2 189
24 Florida 6-1 154
25 West Virginia 4-1 132


but it is interesting that only URI was listed in either the APT25 or MidMaj (VCU is #RV in the AP)

VCU  0 - 0    6 - 1   
Davidson  0 - 0    5 - 1   
Massachusetts  0 - 0    5 - 1   
Rhode Island  0 - 0    5 - 2   
Dayton  0 - 0    4 - 2   
St. Bonaventure  0 - 0    4 - 2   
Fordham  0 - 0    5 - 3   
George Mason  0 - 0    5 - 3   
La Salle  0 - 0    3 - 2   
George Washington  0 - 0    4 - 3   
Richmond  0 - 0    4 - 3   
Saint Joseph's  0 - 0    3 - 3   
Duquesne  0 - 0    3 - 5   
Saint Louis  0 - 0    2 - 4 

[talksalot]

My gut is telling me 8... but I voted for 5

[agibson]

Valpo rises to a 12 seed in Lunardi's latest Bracketology. (Against 5 seed Butler no less.) Rhode Island stays at a 7 seed. Cincinnati too.

[vusupporter]

Rhode Island beat Cincinnati.

[bbtds]

Rhode Island beat Cincinnati.

Opponents' opponents' record is 25% of the RPI.

[ValpoHoops]

Rhode Island beat Cincinnati.

From the RPI Tutorial I wrote up a while back:

OOWP = .250/27000 = .00000925 points per win.

The perfect RPI would be 1.000 ("one point), so that Cincinnati win on a November night to help Rhode Island doesn't really mean much.

[M]

Seth Davis has Valpo at 23. So we are on the board!

[VU2014]

https://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops/status/805577889252921344

https://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops/status/805578126533103616

https://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops/status/805578280057245696

https://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops/status/805578280057245696

https://twitter.com/NWIOren/status/805578955831078913

https://twitter.com/NWIOren/status/805579608645107712

https://twitter.com/RyanOToole5/status/805582554543755264

https://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops/status/805578500539199488

https://twitter.com/NWIOren/status/805583234146926592

[agibson]

[tweet]805582774065184768[/tweet]

[agibson]

These three points alone will bring us up to where we were post-season last year.

Seven points would bring us up to pre-HL tournament levels. We may have peaked around 30.

[oklahomamick]

Wish Kentucky would stay at #1

[VU2014]

Wish Kentucky would stay at #1

Agreed. Helps with the resume to the Tourney Committee and also the loss to UCLA is going create a highly motivated Kentucky to "crush" their next opponent.... us  . I'd feel more comfortable playing against a complacent Kentucky team that thinks they are coasting and business as usual. To be clear I never expected us to win, but I'm hoping we just have a good showing and not get completely blown out. I think now that Kentucky just lost I think its going to a much tougher game.

[agibson]

7 points good for #34. And a single #25 vote in the coaches poll to boot.

Looks like that's a somewhat better outcome than _any_ of us were willing to vote for.

The AP votes were from familiar faces. #23 from Seth Davis as advertised, #24 from Elton Alexander, #25 from Graham Couch and Matt McCoy.

The first three maybe our most loyal voters last year, and we'd heard from McCoy as well.

Even IPFW got a vote in the AP.

[talksalot]

and nobody picked higher than 5... oh us of little faith....

[FWalum]

Even IPFW got a vote in the AP.

We'll see how they do against Notre Dame up in South Bend on Tuesday night.  Unlike VU, the Mastodons have been red hot from the 3pt line shooting almost 41% as a team with Mo Evans leading the list making 29 out of 53 attempts for 54.7%.