Polls: February 17th

[swok34]

Division I Polls

AP Top 25

1. Connecticut (44)
2. Duke
3. Tennessee
4. LSU
5. Kansas State
6. North Carolina
7. Louisiana Tech
8. Texas Tech
9. Stanford
10. Texas
11. Purdue
12. Penn State
13. Georgia
14. Mississippi State
15. Arkansas
16. Minnesota
17. South Carolina
18. Vanderbilt
19. UC-Santa Barbara
20. Villanova
21. Wisconsin-Green Bay
22. Rutgers
23. Washington
24. Boston College
25. Arizona

wow, I do have to say I'm pretty impressed with 7 teams from the SEC in the Top 20.

[YCN]

Your post makes me think back to last year, when the Big 12 had 7 teams in the top 15, and all hosting subregionals.

It also made me think how the selection committee put 3 Big 12 teams in Boise, and had two regionals with only one Big 12 team.

Didn't seem fair at all to me.

BTW, the quality of basketball that I saw played yesterday in the CU-OU game was better than the quality of basketball I saw two years ago in the Midwest Regional in Denver. The champion of that region won the NCAA title.

We are really starting to see the effects of Title IX, because the importance of a dominating post player is becoming less important over time. There are so many players 6' or taller coming into the college game with great skills that the game may be nearly unrecognizable from where it was just ten years ago within a matter of just a few years.

Good for us, and very good for women's basketball in general. Hopefully there will still be a women's pro league 5 years from now.