Thought it would be interesting to wrap this up with a few posts. Here’s this year’s elite 8, with how they finished in our Elite 8 polls:
FAU
- 0 votes in any poll (including anyone’s stated “other”). They were never a candidate because they were never top 19, but were top 25 a few times. (Correction - they were #19 once, but not a week I did this)
Kansas St
- Feb 19 - #17
- Jan 29 - #16
- Jan 9 - @DavetheWave “Other”
- Dec 18 - none
- Dec 4 - none
UConn
- Feb 19 - @haney and @AdventiveQuasar “Other”
- Jan 29 - #17
- Jan 9 - #4 (A HIT!)
- Dec 18 - #1 (A HIT!)
- Dec 4 - #5 (A HIT!)
Zags
- Feb 19 - #11
- Jan 29 - #12
- Jan 9 - #11
- Dec 18 - #9 (near miss)
- Dec 4 - #12
Creighton
- Feb 19 - #13
- Jan 29 - none
- Jan 9 - none
- Dec 18 - none
- Dec 4 - #16
SDSU
- Only one vote. On Feb 19, @Wahoos voted them “Other”.
- They were top 19 in the AP a couple times, but unfortunately, never when I did a poll
Miami
- Feb 19 - #7 (A HIT!)
- Jan 29 - #20
- Jan 9 - #16
- Dec 18 - None
- Dec 4 - None
Texas
- Feb 19 - #10
- Jan 29 - #11
- Jan 9 - #14
- Dec 18 - #13
- Dec 4 - #4 (A HIT!)
Summary stats and maybe other fun stuff to come later, my time and interest permitting