This week’s edition of the blogpoll sees the usual faces moving to a much larger and more diverse polling crowd, as LRT and our fellow voters have joined forces with the folks at CBS Sportsline to poll the minds of the internet’s basketball writers. Now the rankings are made up of ballots from 58 different basketball websites, 47 of which participated in this week’s edition.

With such a robust roster of rankers — that’s alliteration for you youngsters at home — there’s no way we can continue to list all of our colleagues without causing severe eye damage for the readers. But Jerry Hinnen of War Blog Eagle provides a detailed breakdown of this week’s poll, which includes an award slotting our votes as the second least-biased of all the ballots. Rather than being a source of pride, this simply means we aren’t blind to how horribly the Longhorns are playing at the moment. Hooray!

Here is our ballot for this week’s poll. Please note that with the new format, our votes will now only include games through Sunday, not through Big Monday as in previous blogpolls.


LRT’s Rank Team
1 Connecticut
2 Oklahoma
3 Pittsburgh
4 North Carolina
5 Wake Forest
6 Louisville
7 Duke
8 Clemson
9 Memphis
10 Marquette
11 Michigan St.
12 UCLA
13 Butler
14 Xavier
15 Villanova
16 Kansas
17 Arizona St.
18 Purdue
19 Minnesota
20 Gonzaga
21 Syracuse
22 Washington
23 Utah St.
24 Florida St.
25 Missouri

Jerry’s statistical breakdown of the rankings also puts our ballot as third-most consistent with the blogpoll at large, meaning there are no massive deviations for us to explain this week. As requested by our new overlords, later this week we’ll be discussing the methodology used in our own rankings.

As always, fire away in the comments.