UPDATE (5:17 P.M.): The College Crosse aggregated poll is now available below the jump.
These pieces are usually more substantial, but as everyone is still kind of idling in the driveway, it's really hard to make internal combustion when you're just holding a can of gasoline and a bucket of screws. So, you get what you get at this point.
The media and coaches polls are out and Virginia, for the third consecutive polling period, holds down the top spot in both tallies. The Cavaliers actually consolidated their position a little more this week, truly cleaning up all but one first-place vote in the media poll and all the top-tallies in the coaches run. With such madness around the country this weekend (you can experience all the magic again by pointing your Internet page display device here and here), I anticipated more movement in the polls. As it turns out, the team comprising the aggregated top-ten from last week is exactly the same as this week.
Below is an aggregation of the top ten in both the coaches and media polls. The full polls can be seen on the left-hand column of this Internet computing page. I'm holding off on computer-type rankings until we get a little deeper into the season. The College Crosse poll -- when aggregated -- will appear after the jump.
| TEAM | COACHES | MEDIA | AVG. |
| Virginia | 1 | 1 | 1.00 |
| Johns Hopkins | 2 | 2 | 2.00 |
| North Carolina | 4 | 4 | 4.00 |
| Syracuse | 3 | 6 | 4.50 |
| Cornell | 7 | 3 | 5.00 |
| Maryland | 5 | 5 | 5.00 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | 7 | 6.50 |
| Villanova | 8 | 9 | 8.50 |
| Duke | 10 | 8 | 9.00 |
| Notre Dame | 9 | 10 | 9.50 |
Some thoughts:
What do you guys think about this? Okay or no-kay? The comments, they are yours.
Here's the aggregation from the College Crosse crew:
| TEAM | SUXA | SEAN | BRIAN | PTS. | 1ST |
| Virginia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60 | 3 |
| Cornell | 2 | 2 | 2 | 57 | |
| North Carolina | 4 | 4 | 3 | 52 | |
| Johns Hopkins | 5 | 3 | 5 | 50 | |
| Maryland | 3 | 5 | 6 | 49 | |
| Syracuse | 6 | 6 | 4 | 47 | |
| Massachusetts | 8 | 9 | 8 | 38 | |
| Notre Dame | 9 | 7 | 9 | 38 | |
| Duke | 10 | 8 | 10 | 35 | |
| Villanova | 11 | 10 | 7 | 35 | |
| Denver | 7 | 12 | 12 | 32 | |
| Princeton | 13 | 11 | 11 | 28 | |
| Harvard | 12 | 15 | 13 | 23 | |
| Loyola | 14 | 13 | N/A | 15 | |
| Yale | 17 | 17 | 14 | 15 | |
| Penn State | 19 | 14 | 16 | 14 | |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | 18 | 18 | 12 | |
| Drexel | 18 | 19 | 15 | 11 | |
| Ohio State | 16 | 16 | N/A | 10 | |
| Hofstra | 20 | 20 | 17 | 6 |
Also receiving votes: Fairfield (2), Dartmouth (1). It should be noted that Brian was the only voter to include either of these teams. He put them at 19th and 20th, respectively.
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