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The thing about polls is that they're meaningless. And yet, you're about to read a post about a preseason poll. That's an Inception-level of crazy. (Or it isn't. I don't know. I didn't see Inception, so this post may or may not have anything to do with that movie. Apologies for this potential Inception-level of confusion.)
Keeley, Harrison, and I put together individual ballots and collected the results. Both Keeley and Harrison went with the defending national champion -- Virginia -- as their preseason poll-topper; I, because I am handsome and adorably prescient, went with Johns Hopkins as my preseason number one (which, as a Syracuse fan, makes me want to vomit in my mouth a little bit). I am pretty sure that my meaningless vote in this meaningless poll is the reason that the Blue Jays have drunkenly stumbled through their preseason scrimmages/bar crawl.
When you compare the below-aggregation to the coaches and media poll there isn't too much deviation, which shouldn't come as a surprise because everyone's paddling in the same unknown waters at this point.
RANK | TEAM | POINTS | 1st. |
1. | Virginia | 59 | 2 |
2. | Cornell | 56 | |
3. | Johns Hopkins | 52 | 1 |
4. | North Carolina | 50 | |
4. | Duke | 50 | |
6. | Denver | 45 | |
7. | Syracuse | 43 | |
8. | Maryland | 39 | |
9. | Notre Dame | 38 | |
10. | Villanova | 33 | |
11. | Massachusetts | 27 | |
12. | Hofstra | 25 | |
13. | Princeton | 24 | |
14. | Harvard | 22 | |
15. | Bucknell | 21 | |
16. | Pennsylvania | 14 | |
17. | Penn State | 13 | |
18. | Yale | 9 | |
19. | Drexel | 4 | |
19. | Delaware | 4 |
So, what do you knuckleheads think? Does everything here look okay? (Maybe Delaware is a little low? Does anyone have a decent read on Princeton for this season? That's a whole bunch of Ivy League, no?) Leave 'em in the comments below.