From Mechelle: Nope! Pick somebody else, Coach

Geno Auriemma couldn’t select UConn to win the Big East like every other coach in the league did. Same for Tara VanDerveer and Stanford in the Pac-10.

OK, this is NOT something I get upset about or anything. It’s just that every year before the start of the hoops season, I remember that it kind of annoys me.

When coaches do their preseason ballots to make predictions about their league -- how they think teams are going to finish and who the top player and freshman of the year etc. are going to be -- it seems to be standard procedure that they are not allowed to vote for their own team or their players.

But why not?