2001-02 Top 25 Pre-Nationals Poll Results

bokonon90 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:31:07 -0000

2001-02 Top 25 Pre-Nationals Poll Results
#  School                                     : Pts : Ballots : Hi :
#1 : Prev
 1- University of Michigan       : 367 : 15 : 1 : 7 : 1 (Unch)
 2- University of Chicago        : 355 : 15 : 1 : 7 : 5 (+3)
 3- Univ of California-Berkeley : 332 : 15 : 1 : 1 : 4 (+1)
 4- Princeton University          : 330 : 15 : 2 : - : 3 (-1)
 5- University of Kentucky       : 302 : 15 : 2 : - : 2 (-3)
 6- University of Virginia          : 300 : 15 : 2 : - : 10 (+4)
 7- Harvard University            : 279 : 15 : 4 : - : 6 (-1)
 8- Stanford University           : 254 : 15 : 5 : - : 7 (-1)
 9- University of Illinois (U-C)   : 250 : 15 : 4 : - : 8 (-1)
10- University of Florida          : 227 : 15 : 7 : - : 11 (+1)
11- Yale University               : 210 : 15 : 7 : - : 13 (+2)
12- University of Pittsburgh      : 194 : 14 : 7 : - : 9 (-3)
13- Florida Atlantic University  : 171 : 14 : 9 : - : 12 (-1)
14- Mass Inst of Technology    : 153 : 14 : 10 : - : 18 (+4)
15- Texas A&M University       : 150 : 14 : 10 : - : 14 (-1)
16- Carleton College            : 149 : 14 : 13 : - : 15 (-1)
17- Calif Inst of Technology     : 142 : 14 : 10 : - : 16 (-1)
18- Case Western Res. Univ    :  70 : 10 : 14 : - : 19 (+1)
19- Florida State University      : 53 : 10 : 15 : - : 25 (+6)
20- Cornell University           :  51 :  8 : 15 : - : 23 (+3)
21- University of Rochester    :  49 :  9 : 14 : - : New
22- Emory University           :  48 :  9 : 15 : - : New
23- Swarthmore College          :  47 : 6 : 15 : - : 21 (-2)
24- Univ of Maryland-Coll Park :  46 : 8 : 15 : - : New
25- University of Oklahoma     :  45 :  6 : 12 : - : 24 (-1)

Other Schools Appearing on 20% of Ballots:  Votes (Ballots) 
Washington U-St. Louis 7 (44), Duke 4 (29), Vanderbilt 4 (22), 
Boston Univ 4 (22), George Washington 4 (16), Arkansas 4 (11),  
UCLA 3 (16), Rutgers-New Brunswick 3 (12) [Total = 33]

Other Schools Appearing On Ballots:
Florida CC-Jacksonville, Georgia, Harvey Mudd/Scripps, Iowa, 
Iowa State, Minnesota, Missouri-Columbia, Missouri-Kansas 
City, Missouri-Rolla, Oregon, Oxford, South Carolina, Simon 
Fraser, Tennessee-Knoxville, Texas-Austin, Washington-Seattle, 
Wisconsin  [Total = 50]

Poll Narrative : 
 Michigan keeps it's #1 ranking, but Chicago gets nearly half the 
#1 votes to move up to #2. Virginia, MIT, and Florida State move 
up while Kentucky, Pitt, and Swarthmore move down. Duke, 
Vanderbilt, and South Carolina are replaced by Rochester (first 
Top 25 appearance in history), Emory (first Top 25 appearance 
in several years), and Maryland (a Top 25 mainstay returning 
after a one-year absence). 

Note that 11 schools appeared on all 15 ballots (which I am 
pretty sure is a poll record for unanimity) while six others were 
only missing from one ballot (not the same one).  Voters spread 
their Top 5 votes to only nine schools. No ballot had fewer than 
18 of the consensus Top 25, and most had 21 or more.  
I think these are all good signs. Good work, voters. 

Next poll will be in late April after the results of College Bowl's 
NCT (the last of the three academic national titles) have been 
reported.  Results should be up at the GWACC's webapge 
shortly. (http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia)

-Tim Young
Poll Admin Guy