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Post by D. B. Cooper on Oct 16, 2006 14:28:33 GMT -5
www.avca.org/collegiate/dipoll/dipoll10-16-06.aspRank School (First-Place Votes) Total Points 2006 Record Last Week 1 Nebraska (46) 1483 17-0 1 2 Penn State (14) 1450 19-0 2 3 Stanford 1369 15-2 6 4 UCLA 1316 20-1 3 5 Southern California 1243 18-1 4 6 Washington 1227 15-3 5 7 Florida 1129 16-2 8 8 California 1045 14-4 7 9 Texas 1000 12-4 10 10 Utah 909 17-2 12 11 Wisconsin 872 14-4 14 T-12 LSU 687 16-3 13 T-12 Missouri 687 13-5 15 14 Purdue 670 15-4 9 15 Santa Clara 611 14-4 17 16 Hawai'i 571 13-5 11 17 Minnesota 538 13-5 23 18 BYU 509 16-2 19 19 Cal Poly 490 14-4 20 20 San Diego 347 16-4 22 21 Ohio 315 16-3 21 22 New Mexico State 283 22-1 25 23 Oklahoma 242 16-3 24 24 Ohio State 202 13-5 16 25 Tennessee 115 15-5 18 Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: Duke 41; Alabama 38; Long Beach State 27; St John's 24; Oregon 14; Pepperdine 13; Sacramento State 9; San Francisco 7; Saint Mary's (CA) 6; Bowling Green State 5; UC Santa Barbara 3; Northern Iowa 2.
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Post by JT on Oct 16, 2006 14:29:53 GMT -5
Wow! Helluva lift for MN. I was not expecting it, and it goes counter to the "punish only" theory of the poll.
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Post by BearClause on Oct 16, 2006 14:31:26 GMT -5
As a Cal fan, I marvel at how the AVCA voters manage to keep my favorite team up there in the polls. I'll repeat my favorite line about staying the top 10. Well - it's good for recruiting.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2006 14:38:16 GMT -5
I'm surprised too, but basically what they did was kick OSU and Tennessee out, and moved Minnesota into the vacancy.
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*Cal only drops 1 spot AND only loses 48 pts. This is odd, even for the Pac10 exception. They lost twice.
*LSU moves up, but they lost points.
*Hawaii drops 5 spots? Seems harsh, but 4 spot gain last week was generous.
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Post by ugopher on Oct 16, 2006 14:38:52 GMT -5
As a Cal fan, I marvel at how the AVCA voters manage to keep my favorite team up there in the polls. I'll repeat my favorite line about staying the top 10. Well - it's good for recruiting. 'Tis amazing! Go 0-2 and drop one spot. Purdue, with a similar record, also goes 0-2 on the road and drops 5 spots. And, 346 points. |
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Oct 16, 2006 14:46:49 GMT -5
Wow! Helluva lift for MN. I was not expecting it, and it goes counter to the "punish only" theory of the poll. "with rare exceptions..."  Notice that is what everyone else did, though |
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Post by BearClause on Oct 16, 2006 14:50:33 GMT -5
'Tis amazing! Go 0-2 and drop one spot. Purdue, with a similar record, also goes 0-2 on the road and drops 5 spots. And, 346 points. I guess it's different enough with a sweep from the #14 team and a 3-1 loss to the #23 team. Cal had the sweep by #4 UCLA and a 3-1 loss to #5 USC. I won't pretend to understand. I'm just hoping that Hana Cutura's foot is reasonably well in a few weeks. If she's healthy and productive, everything else seems to work better. |
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Post by ugopher on Oct 16, 2006 14:55:45 GMT -5
Missouri loses at home to Nebraska 3-0 and gains 3 spots and points.
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Post by maninyellowhat on Oct 16, 2006 14:55:46 GMT -5
Speaking of feet, does anyone know Carlini's status?
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Post by snickers on Oct 16, 2006 14:59:26 GMT -5
Speaking of feet, does anyone know Carlini's status? they played quite well without her last weekend. But I'm sure it would be nice to have her against MN on Wed. I hope that's a good match. |
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Post by italianmattd on Oct 16, 2006 15:06:03 GMT -5
Wow.... 3 pac 10 teams in top 5... again.....
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Post by sunny on Oct 16, 2006 15:07:51 GMT -5
Could someone explain to me how Tennessee remains on the poll? South Carolina and FSU gave Florida more of a run for their money than UT did. Are these polls based on last year's results?
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Post by Ye Olde Dawg on Oct 16, 2006 15:08:19 GMT -5
Missouri loses at home to Nebraska 3-0 and gains 3 spots and points. I know people say you get punished for losing in the AVCA poll, but it does seem to matter who you lose to. Losing to the #1 when you're not in the top 10 seems to be a loss you won't be punished for. I'd say the same thing happened to Cal, to a lesser extent. The AVCA predicted they'd lose twice, and they did. So they didn't get punished much. |
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Post by 808 on Oct 16, 2006 15:15:22 GMT -5
*Hawaii drops 5 spots? Seems harsh, but 4 spot gain last week was generous. I'll agree that the 4 spot gain last week was generous. It only came about because teams above them lost. I don't think it was on the basis of their wins over Utah State and Nevada. Losing to a lower ranked team is not good so I don't have a problem with the 5 spot drop either. |
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Oct 16, 2006 15:16:29 GMT -5
Missouri loses at home to Nebraska 3-0 and gains 3 spots and points. I know people say you get punished for losing in the AVCA poll, but it does seem to matter who you lose to. Losing to the #1 when you're not in the top 10 seems to be a loss you won't be punished for. I'd say the same thing happened to Cal, to a lesser extent. The AVCA predicted they'd lose twice, and they did. So they didn't get punished much. I would say yes and no. Just losing to someone ranked higher is not sufficient. It needs to be either a lot higher (say, #20 vs #10), or basically to anyone in the top 5. That's where Cal came off this week. You don't get hit hard when losing to a team ranked in the top 5 UNLESS you are in the top 5 yourself. I would predict the loser of USC/UCLA to drop a couple of spots (note, however, that Cal could have been penalized two places, but that Purdue's drop left them in the #8 spot) Purdue was hit harder because they lost to two teams not ranked in the top 5. However, a six spot hit is pretty harsh either way. That's more like a loss to an unranked team. |
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