AP Poll Is Out Also

I forgot to mention that the AP Poll is out today as well. It's pretty similar to the Coaches Poll, which I spoke about a few hours ago. Kansas is the overwhelming #1, with the same teams making up the rest of the Top Five and Top Ten. This poll gives 28 votes to South Carolina, and none to USC, which backs up the theory that the "USC" in the Coaches Poll was indeed meant for South Carolina. Once again, it's hard to fathom anybody with any clue about college basketball that would pick USC as a Tournament team, let alone a Top 25 team.

We've again got nonsensical teams getting a few Top 25 votes, although they're different from the Coaches Poll. In the case of the AP, they've got Western Kentucky, VCU, Old Dominion and Holy Cross each picking up Top 25 votes, even though there's not a sliver of a chance that the people who voted for them would bet on them straight up again Maryland or Vanderbilt (two teams that failed make the Top 25, but did receive plenty of votes).

Of the teams I pointed out that received zero votes in the Coaches Poll yet showed up in my BP65 (Virginia, Baylor, Wisconsin, Arizona State and Cincinnati), none of them received votes in the AP poll either.

In other words, while the AP is usually slightly more accurate than the Coaches Poll (simply because the voters care more), it's still got most of the same silliness.