Blogpoll – Week 12
As usual, running late… Justifying Our Ballot. We actually had to do this for the first time all season. We ranked Florida above Mississippi St. (#25 in our ballot), and one blogger took offense with...
View Article2008-09 Season Preview
Yes, it’s that time again. We at Rush the Court are 100% focused and ready to provide comprehensive coverage of every scrap of interesting news that occurs in college basketball this year. The...
View ArticlePreseason Blogpoll Released
We’re coming to the end of the 2008-09 preseason materials with the release of today’s Blogpoll. Again, if you’re new to the site or simply drank away your memory in the offseason, RTC, along with a...
View ArticleHow Accurate are Preseason Polls?
A question that’s befuddled us for a long time now has been just how accurate are all these preseason polls that every media entity puts out each year are. Remember last season – all four NCAA #1...
View ArticleWeek 1 Blogpoll
We delayed the start of the Blogpoll this year so we could get a better sense as to the first few weeks of the season, so here it is. The blogpoll is represented through Monday night’s games (although...
View ArticleWeek 3 Blogpoll
Here it is, through Monday night’s games… Quick Hits. Little Movement. The top three remain the same, and there were only four teams – Xavier, Ohio St., Tennessee, Arizona St. – who moved up or down...
View ArticleWeek 4 Blogpoll
Here we go with Week 4’s Blogpoll… Some quick thoughts: Motility. UConn moved up one spot to #2 by virtue of their big OT win in Washington state last weekend. Duke (+5) and Georgetown (+5) were the...
View ArticleWeek 5 Blogpoll
Here’s this week’s blogpoll. Keep in mind that the votes were tallied including games through Monday night only… Quick Observations. The Harder They Fall. UConn (-4), Ohio St. (-8), Gonzaga (-8) and...
View ArticleWeek 6 Blogpoll
Here we go (through Mon. night’s games)… Some very quick analysis: Hits and Misses. In our ballot, we had Cal, Dayton and St. Mary’s in the lower reaches of the poll in lieu of WVU, Gonzaga and...
View ArticleThis Week’s RTC Blogpoll
As part of the new Blogpoll, we’ll be posting our poll on RTC.net that will then be used to create a composite Blogpoll that will be released at a later date. I’m pretty sure this is how it is supposed...
View ArticleBlogpoll Roundtable 02.19.09
As a member of the CBB Blogpoll, we’ve been asked to join the weekly roundtable, where we’ll be answering a series of questions about the state of the season. A Sea of Blue is this week’s host – be...
View ArticleBlogpoll – 02.23.09
It has been difficult to rank teams this year because it seems like there isn’t any consistency among the top 25 teams outside of the top 5 or 6, which have been consistently good lately (with an...
View ArticleThis Week’s RTC Blogpoll
This week’s poll was tough because so many top 25 teams lost and it’s kind of hard to compare the relative strength/weakness of each loss. I also wasn’t sure what to do with Marquette. I dropped them...
View ArticleThis Week’s Blogpoll
Once again I had trouble with coming up with an order for these teams because they keep on losing games they shouldn’t. I feel like it’s easy to classify them into groups, but hard to differentiate...
View ArticleRTC Blogpoll – Summer 2009 Edition
I’m proud to re-introduce a feature here at Rush the Court – the RTC Blogpoll. From November through March during the college hoops season, check back here every Monday for the rankings of our four...
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