Polls 2/8/2015

[ecasadoSBU]

I expect ESPN to blow it up like they've done for every other #1 team... But they probably won't those biased motherfu...

Just a little "tweet" in the basketball section of ESPN....

[NovaBall]

wow didn't know that this is Nova's 1st time EVER at #1 in AP poll.

I was more surprised that Maryland had never been #1. Thought they had been #1 about 15 years ago. Both Nova and Maryland have been #1 in the coach's poll.
Nova was the team with the most ncaa tourney wins to have never been #1 (47), and now it is Maryland (38).

Nova's top ten history:

Last season we ended at #2
Got up to #3 in 2013
#6 in 2011
#2 in 2010
#10 in 2009
#17 in 2008
#2 in 2006
#19 in 2005

From the Lappas era
#4 in 1997
#2 in 1996
#9 in 1995

Rollie only cracked the top ten once, in 1983 when he reached #4

Kraft had 6 top ten teams:
#11 in 1972
#8 in 1971
#9 in 1970
#5 in 1969
#8 in 1965
#5 in 1964
#5 in 1962

They started the rankings in 1949. From 1949-1961, severance had eight top twenty teams, with three of them in the top ten, peaking at 7.


In 2006 we had a preseason vote for number 1. In week 9 that increased to 2 votes. Duke was #1, uconn #2, for most of the early months. We lost in week 9 (wvu), but so did uconn, so we stayed at 3 and uconn dropped to 4. (Florida jumped us to 2, which surprises me because I forgot they started well that season). We lost again the next week (Texas) and fell to 8. We then went in a ten game win streak and climbed back up to 4 by week 14, were back getting a first place vote by week 15, and by week 16 we were ranked #2 with three first place votes.

That's the closest we have been to being #1 That I can remember. We then lost at #3 uconn that week and dropped to #4 and entered the tourney at #3.


The 2010 team received first place votes around week five when they were ranked #3. They lost in week 6 to temple but then went on another nice run and climbed back up to #2 on feb 5 with a couple first place votes. Kansas was #1, but they didn't lose again until the eels of February.

I remember the 1996 team was #2 when they lost to temple early in the year.

[sciencejay]

I'm also shocked that this is the first time Nova is ranked #1 by the AP.

They didn't get a #1 ranking after beating G'Town for the '85 championship?

[ecasadoSBU]

Stony Brook (my alma mater) gets eight votes. I'm so proud. LETS GO SEAWOLVES!!!!!!

[Letsgonova]

I'm also shocked that this is the first time Nova is ranked #1 by the AP.

They didn't get a #1 ranking after beating G'Town for the '85 championship?

AP doesn't do a post-tourney poll. We were #1 in the USA Today poll at the close of the 1985 tourney.

[ivet]

Watch your back Nova, you got 2 tough teams coming up. At least one of those teams will knock you down a few pegs.

[mpwalsh8]

Watch your back Nova, you got 2 tough teams coming up. At least one of those teams will knock you down a few pegs.

The scary thing is it absolutely could happen. After DePaul and St. John's, Nova is @Temple.

[BEX]

#1 vs #2 - 2/24 on Fox.

[billyjack]

Congrats to Villanova at #1...!!! and to Xavier at #5...!!!