At long last, our Big East poll
July 29, 2008 by Mike CasazzaThe Big East media poll will be released later this morning at Big East Media Day, which thankfully was not canceled because of Kige. I’ll come back later to share the results. Right now I’m disheveled. I played in a softball game last night in which our surging team was up 11-0 after two innings — a little guy with a penchant for the pen one-hopped the fence in left field — and lost 15-11. My best guess is that the Pittsburgh Pirates Altoona Curve switched places with the opponent in the bottom of the third. A team that could do no right suddenly could do no wrong and started smoking every ball it hit. Surreal. Yes, I know it’s softball, but the nature of the loss irks me. That bothers me more than anything else.
Anyhow, we’re here today for our Big East poll, which featured 20 votes, including mine that went to the Big East’s version, too. Here are the results. Eight points first a first-place vote, one for a last place vote. A detailed look follows the jump and should show not only how even the middle is, but why many people think a good team could be bad or a bad team could be good.
1. West Virginia, 159 points
2. South Florida, 131
T3. Pitt, 92
T3. Rutgers, 92
5. Louisville, 91
6. Cincinnati, 75
7. Connecticut, 58
8. Syracuse, 22
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