From: chill@walt.UUCP (Curtis Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: The USENET Top 25 Poll is Back
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:30:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: walt.9210141830.AA00726


OK, here's the deal, see.  This is your poll.  It only works because of
you.  I will only run it if you send me your votes.


The procedure here is simple.

   o You send me a list of 25 teams, in the correct format, by Tuesday night,
     every week.
   o Early Wednesday morning, me, or a script of my choosing, processes
     the ballots received.
   o Later that morning, the poll is posted for your reading pleasure.


The reason this isn't run on Monday is that we never received enough
responses when the poll was tried using this voting format.


There will be some enhancements to this year's poll.

First, folks who vote will receive email on Monday as a reminder to submit a
ballot by the next day for future polls.

Next, those who make odd votes (exact AP, exact CNN, voting Podunk State in
the top 10), will have their votes counted, but will be noted in a special
section after the top 25 are listed.  Continuing submissions of silly ballots
will result in those ballots not being counted.

Finally, I hope to have some extra fun stats for each team in the poll.  This
will be time permitting.


The format for a ballot is this:

1. Radford
2. Akron
3. Youngstown State
4. Buffalo
5. Stetson
. 
. 
. 
24. Western Carolina
25. Tennessee Tech


Note that you may send in less than 25.  However, all ballots will be tallied
using the following formula:

(number of entries - ballot position + 1) = team score.

Thus, if you enter 25 teams, your first team will receive 25 points, your
second 24, down to your last team getting 1 point.

If you submit a ballot with 1 team, then that team will receive 1 point,
not 25.

Ballots should be sent to:

star3!walt!chill@mcnc.org

or

star3!walt!chill@concert.net


Here is the official and complete list of 298 Division I basketball teams for
the 92-93 season.  A list of abbreviations will be provided to those who vote
regularly.

--------------------------

Air Force
Akron
Alabama
Alabama State
Alabama-Birmingham
Alcorn State
American
Appalachian State
Arizona
Arizona State
Arkansas
Arkansas State
Arkansas-Little Rock
Army
Auburn
Augusta
Austin Peay
Ball State
Baylor
Bethune-Cookman
Boise State
Boston College
Boston University
Bowling Green
Bradley
Brigham Young
Brooklyn College
Brown
Bucknell
Buffalo
Butler
California
Cal State-Northridge
Campbell
Canisius
Centenary
Central Connecticut State
Central Florida
Central Michigan
Charleston Southern
Chicago State
Cincinnati
Clemson
Cleveland State
Coastal Carolina
Colgate
Colorado
Colorado State
Columbia
Connecticut
Coppin State
Cornell
Creighton
Dartmouth
Davidson
Dayton
DePaul
Delaware
Delaware State
Detroit
Drake
Drexel
Duke
Duquense
East Carolina
East Tennessee State
Eastern Illinois
Eastern Kentucky
Eastern Michigan
Eastern Washington
Evansville
Fairfield
Fairleigh Dickinson
Florida
Florida A&M
Florida International
Florida State
Fordham
Fresno State
Fullerton State
Furman
George Mason
George Washington
Georgetown
Georgia
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Gonzaga
Grambling State
Hardin-Simmons
Hartford
Harvard
Hawaii
Hofstra
Holy Cross
Houston
Howard
Idaho
Idaho State
Illinois
Illinois State
Illinois-Chicago
Indiana
Indiana State
Iona
Iowa
Iowa State
Jackson State
Jacksonville
James Madison
Kansas
Kansas State
Kent State
Kentucky
LaSalle
Lafayette
Lamar
Lehigh
Liberty
Long Beach State
Long Island
Louisiana State
Louisiana Tech
Louisville
Loyola
Loyola (MD)
Loyola-Marymount
Maine
Manhattan
Marist
Marquette
Marshall
Maryland
Maryland-Baltimore County
Maryland-Eastern Shore
Massachusetts
McNeese State
Memphis State
Mercer
Miami (FL)
Miami (OH)
Michigan
Michigan State
Middle Tennessee State
Minnesota
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Mississippi Valley
Missouri
Missouri-Kansas City
Monmouth
Montana
Montana State
Morehead State
Morgan State
Mount St. Mary's
Murray State
NC State
Navy
Nebraska
Nevada-Reno
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New Mexico State
New Orleans
Niagara
Nicholls State
North Carolina
North Carolina A&T
North Texas State
Northeast Louisiana
Northeastern
Northeastern Illinois
Northern Arizona
Northern Illinois
Northern Iowa
Northwestern
Northwestern State
Notre Dame
Ohio
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Old Dominion
Oregon
Oregon State
Pacific
Penn State
Pennsylvania
Pepperdine
Pittsburgh
Portland
Prairie View A&M
Princeton
Providence
Purdue
Radford
Rhode Island
Rice
Richmond
Rider
Robert Morris
Rutgers
Sacramento State
Sam Houston State
Samford
San Diego
San Diego State
San Francisco
San Jose State
Santa Clara
Seton Hall
Siena
South Alabama
South Carolina
South Carolina State
South Florida
Southern
Southeast Missouri State
Southern California
Southern Illinois
Southern Methodist
Southern Mississippi
Southern Utah
Southwest Missouri State
Southwest Texas State
Southwestern Louisiana
St. Bonaventure
St. Francis (NY)
St. Francis (PA)
St. John's
St. Joseph's
St. Louis
St. Mary's
St. Peter's
Stanford
Stephen F. Austin
Stetson
Syracuse
Temple
Tennessee
Tennessee State
Tennessee Tech
Tennessee-Chattanooga
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Christian
Texas Southern
Texas Tech
Texas-Arlington
Texas-El Paso
Texas-Pan American
Texas-San Antonio
The Citadel
Toledo
Towson State
Tulane
Tulsa
UC-Irvine
UC-Santa Barbara
UCLA
UNC-Asheville
UNC-Charlotte
UNC-Greensboro
UNC-Wilmington
UNLV
Utah
Utah State
VMI
Valparaiso
Vanderbilt
Vermont
Villanova
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Tech
Wagner
Wake Forest
Washington
Washington State
Weber State
West Virginia
Western Carolina
Western Illinois
Western Kentucky
Western Michigan
Wichita State
William & Mary
Winthrop
Wisconsin
Wisconsin-Green Bay
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wright State
Wyoming
Xavier
Yale
Youngstown State