Poll time.
Division III: Bowdoin has dropped out of the polls completely. Wow. Michigan's Hope Collge comes in at the top spot, followed by Howard Payne (TX), Messiah College (PA), Mary Washington (VA) and New York University.
Best name in the poll: #25 Oglethorpe University (GA).
Division II: The top five are unchanged: North Dakota, Delta State, Washburn, UC San Diego and UAlaska-Anchorage. Indiana University Of Pennsylvania jumped from 10th to 6th and gives me the chance to ask, "What up with the names, PA?" 'Cause there's also a California University of Pennsylvania.
How do I know this? Because I watched back in 2004 when their very good women's basketball team won the D-II championship. I believe I was coming down from a D-I tournament game and was looking for the UCLA/Minnesota game. I walked away thinking -- they may be shorter and smaller that D-I, but dang, their basketball skills rock!
Speaking of D-I: No surprise, the SEC's Tennessee sits atop the rankings. Two Big East teams follow (UConn and Rutgers), with the ACC (UNC) and the PAC-10 (Stanford) rounding out the top five.
Terrapins still rule over the Tigers and Bulldogs. The Golden Bears (12) are within a paw swipe of the Lady Bears (10).
The Commodores rode the wave of their win up a spot to 17, the Mountaineers are climbing, but the Colonials are going a tad retro, dropping to 21st. It look like the Fighting Irish are making a name for themselves at the 20th spot and the Cowgirls hitched themselves up a spot or tw0 (22).
The Blue Demons (17) are on the heels of the Blue Devils (16), but the Sun Devils (19) seem to be fading.
And that's what happens when you blog with a fever. Count your lucky stars NAIA and NJCAA haven't updated their rankings....
And, in case you're wondering, Oglethorpe's are the Stormy Petrels. Before you laugh, know this: ESPN's David Lloyd named the Stormy Petrel as one of the most memorable college mascot names of all time, second only to the Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz.
So there. You learn something new every day, but no one said it had to be useful.
Division III: Bowdoin has dropped out of the polls completely. Wow. Michigan's Hope Collge comes in at the top spot, followed by Howard Payne (TX), Messiah College (PA), Mary Washington (VA) and New York University.
Best name in the poll: #25 Oglethorpe University (GA).
Division II: The top five are unchanged: North Dakota, Delta State, Washburn, UC San Diego and UAlaska-Anchorage. Indiana University Of Pennsylvania jumped from 10th to 6th and gives me the chance to ask, "What up with the names, PA?" 'Cause there's also a California University of Pennsylvania.
How do I know this? Because I watched back in 2004 when their very good women's basketball team won the D-II championship. I believe I was coming down from a D-I tournament game and was looking for the UCLA/Minnesota game. I walked away thinking -- they may be shorter and smaller that D-I, but dang, their basketball skills rock!
Speaking of D-I: No surprise, the SEC's Tennessee sits atop the rankings. Two Big East teams follow (UConn and Rutgers), with the ACC (UNC) and the PAC-10 (Stanford) rounding out the top five.
Terrapins still rule over the Tigers and Bulldogs. The Golden Bears (12) are within a paw swipe of the Lady Bears (10).
The Commodores rode the wave of their win up a spot to 17, the Mountaineers are climbing, but the Colonials are going a tad retro, dropping to 21st. It look like the Fighting Irish are making a name for themselves at the 20th spot and the Cowgirls hitched themselves up a spot or tw0 (22).
The Blue Demons (17) are on the heels of the Blue Devils (16), but the Sun Devils (19) seem to be fading.
And that's what happens when you blog with a fever. Count your lucky stars NAIA and NJCAA haven't updated their rankings....
And, in case you're wondering, Oglethorpe's are the Stormy Petrels. Before you laugh, know this: ESPN's David Lloyd named the Stormy Petrel as one of the most memorable college mascot names of all time, second only to the Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz.
So there. You learn something new every day, but no one said it had to be useful.
posted by Helen at 4:43 PM
