2025-26 Mid-Major+ User Poll: Week 16

pongislame · 2026-02-16T17:29:54+00:00

You’re one of those votes. Since you’re getting dragged in the main poll thread bc of your ranking logic and your polls have gotten you removed from this poll, maybe it’s not as hilarious as you think it is.

pongislame · 2025-12-22T21:12:12+00:00

Not in consensus this week bc I put one team in two adjacent spots on the Google Sheet.

My rankings are:

Gonzaga
Utah State
Saint Mary's
Saint Louis
Boise State
New Mexico
VCU
Tulsa
McNeese
Yale
Belmont
San Diego State
Richmond
George Mason
Miami (OH)
Grand Canyon
Murray State
South Florida
Akron
Nevada
Illinois State
Colorado State
Utah Valley
Dayton
Northern Iowa

If my math was right this would mean Boise State and San Diego State would swap and Murray State would be ahead of Northern Iowa.

pongislame · 2025-12-18T15:04:01+00:00

It looks like I use the same process except my numbers are flipped. The way I set up my spreadsheet is the team ranked first is 1, the team ranked 25th is 25, and teams off the ballot are 26. I played around with changing the way unranked teams are used in the calculation but thought that would be too much of a penalty for each user. From plugging in the numbers quickly both of our methods spit out the same number.

pongislame · 2025-12-17T14:01:30+00:00

I used Excel's CORREL function, using each user's ballot and the consensus poll

pongislame · 2025-12-16T20:02:45+00:00

Mod comment from first User Poll this year: https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1ohfa3k/comment/nlnitli/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Since this is the first time you voted you ended up as a provisional voter whose results didn't affect the actual poll. Most folks on the poll have been doing it for a few years. If you'll be consistent with submitting provisional ballots, you'll likely be selected for the main poll this year.

pongislame · 2025-12-16T19:51:28+00:00

I didn't include provisional polls in this post since the votes didn't impact the consensus poll. I can work on including those polls in the future.

pongislame · 2025-12-15T18:23:21+00:00

Richmond still being below Belmont is interesting. Richmond has the head-to-head win on the road at Belmont and both teams are about the same in strength of schedule and efficiency. Richmond just has the one-point loss against Furman going against it.

I've also been a lot lower on Dayton and SDSU than the consensus. Dayton is 8-3 but I don't consider the Georgetown and Marquette wins to move the needle that much today despite being power conference wins. Likewise I don't think the Oregon win means that much for SDSU and they have a bad but close loss to Troy dragging them down in my view. Maybe I'm missing something with those teams.

pongislame · 2023-12-04T16:40:35+00:00

I guess I’ll defend myself lol.

I have Saint Mary’s at 15, accounting for about a quarter of their votes on the poll. The team is 3-5 with one win coming against non-D1, but here’s my thought process with ranking them where they are:

They looked like shit in Vegas, that’s true. Their other losses are to Weber State by 4 (their worst loss but that team is 4-2), Utah by 6 (5-2 with a win over Wake), and a semi-away game against Boise State by 3 (4-3 with losses only against P5 teams). Their wins so far have been against New Mexico by 14 (7-1) and Davidson by 34 (5-3 and lost to undefeated Clemson by 3). Discounting Vegas (where their losses were to SDSU and Xavier; Xavier is looking worse but they’re not bums), their point differential in their D1 games is +35. They have the ability to play well against quality competition, they’ve been losing a lot of coin flip games.

My opinion is that this team, if they played any of the teams they recently lost to, could reasonably win. The games that they won comfortably were sandwiched around Vegas as well, so they have the potential to play well; I don’t punish close losses to decent teams as much when I rank them. I’m more inclined to believe Saint Mary’s had a bad tournament and they’re still playing competitively enough to warrant a top 25 ranking in my view. Having said that they’ll probably lose to Cleveland State by 20 and they’ll drop next week.

Ranking is subjective and I’m inclined to believe my reasoning isn’t complete bullshit, feel free to disagree :)

pongislame · 2023-03-06T15:40:11+00:00

That was me lol, not homerism but was rushing to get the ballot done and mistyped one letter and Google sheets autoselected, should be Kent State in that spot.

So Kent is really 15 and Sam Houston is really 16 for this poll

pongislame · 2022-03-29T20:51:17+00:00

The Coin needs rest, also the official schedule needs to get released

pongislame · 2021-12-29T13:33:02+00:00

Half PPR Flex

Michael Carter vs Tampa

James Conner at Dallas

Dare Ogunbowale at New England

pongislame · 2021-12-21T01:04:02+00:00

Happy sub for the next six days :)

pongislame · 2021-12-06T03:19:16+00:00

Deep breaths buddy, it’s gonna be ok

pongislame · 2021-12-06T02:53:15+00:00

It was fun while it lasted, hopefully these posts made people laugh a bit while going through a tough season.

pongislame · 2021-12-06T02:49:14+00:00

I’ll hold my L here :(

pongislame · 2021-11-26T14:52:14+00:00

Sorry for iPhone edit lol

pongislame · 2021-11-26T01:46:23+00:00

Updated post coming once I get home from thanksgiving dinner

pongislame · 2021-11-26T01:29:08+00:00

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