Blogpoll: Week Thirteen

The full blogpoll is here, my ballot was as follows.

I didn't watch any of the game tonight- I was in the library studying Corporate Finance. I see that Lawson didn't play, and the combined 7/34 shooting of Ginyard, Ellington and Green didn't help matters. Scheyer got six rebounds? That's interesting. Looks like Duke's 39-9 advantage from beyond the arch more than made up for UNC's dominance inside. I don't think people will ever stop saying "Duke has no inside presence"; we'll see how far they can advance despite that.

Drake just keeps on winning. They're up to 20 in a row after coming back to win at Indiana St. last night. The Valley is down a little this year, but starting off 6-0 on the road is difficult no matter what conference you play in. They've now got another big road test on their schedule, as they'll visit Butler on February 23 as part of BracketBusters weekend.

As detailed over at RTC, the Gonzaga-St. Mary's game was pretty incredible on Monday night. Pargo and Mills really took over down the stretch, and St. Mary's got pretty much every call in an extremely hostile (and dark) environment. The Gaels are at Santa Clara next Monday, and their next real test after that will come against Kent St. in another BracketBuster game.

Notre Dame was very impressive tonight (not that I saw the game, but they did win by 26) on the road against Seton Hall. They're starting to shed their reputation of a poor road team- they also won @Villanova a couple weeks ago. They host Marquette on Saturday (a game they really should win), and then play @UConn next week- that should be an excellent game.

Purdue makes their first appearance on my ballot this week. They've started off 9-1 in the Big 10, but now their schedule really gets tough. Their next four games are at Wisconsin, vs. MSU, at Northwestern, and at Indiana. You'd have to consider a split of those four games (so, really, beating Northwestern and winning one of the other three) a success. If they do that, they could very realistically finish 14-4 in the Big Ten, which is almost shockingly good.