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Monday, November 16, 2009

Cornell Moves Up to No. 10 in Mid Major Top 25


Each week of the season The Cornell Basketball Blog posts the rankings in the Mid Major Top 25 Poll as voted upon on CollegeInsider.com.

In the November 16 (week no. 1) edition of the CollegeInsider.com Mid Major Top 25 Poll, Cornell jumped from the No. 18 spot in the preseason poll to No. 10 this week. Cornell's rankings this season are as follows:
During the last two seasons, Cornell was the only Ivy League team to receive recognition in the final results. Cornell concluded 2008-2009 in 29th position after finishing the 2007-2008 season ranked No. 18.

Roughly 200 Division I teams comprise The CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll (out of 347 Division I teams). Eligible teams are from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Great West, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Continent, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Sun Belt, West Coast.

MID MAJOR TOP 25-COLLEGE INSIDER.COM



Record

Points

Previous


1. Butler (28) 1-0 768 1
2. Gonzaga (3) 1-0 730 2
3. Siena 1-0 709 3
4. Northern Iowa 1-0 655 4
5. Western Kentucky 0-0 618 5
6. Old Dominion 1-0 603 6
7. George Mason 2-0 489 12
8. VCU 1-0 456 11
9. Rider 1-0 437 19
10. Cornell 1-0 425 18
11. Creighton 0-1 423 7
12. Portland 1-0 380 15
13. Illinois State 1-0 359 16
14. Wright State 2-1 351 9
15. Northeastern 0-0 307 13
16. Akron 0-1 261 8
17. Niagara 0-1 251 10
18. Long Beach State 1-0 168 20
19. San Diego 1-0 154 NR
20. Oakland 0-1 125 14
21. South Alabama 2-1 124 21
22. St. Mary's 1-0 96 23
23. Radford 1-0 87 25
24. Davidson 0-1 81 24
25. Texas San Antonio 1-0 77


OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Southern Illinois 62, College of Charleston 59, North Texas 51, Ken State 50, Wisconsin Green Bay 48, IUPUI 47, Morgan State 44, Sam Houston State 43, UC Santa Barbara 42, Coastal Carolina 36, Harvard 35, Boston University 34, Montana 33, Weber State 29, Milwaukee 28, Jacksonville 26, Buffalo 19, Wichita State 19, Murray State 17, Troy 17, Cleveland State 16, Eastern Michigan 16, Mercer 16, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 12, North Dakota State 12, Bradley 10, Mount St Mary's 10, Appalachian State 9, Morehead State 9, Pacific 9, Western Carolina 9, Holy Cross 8, Santa Clara 8, Vermont 8, Norfolk State 7, Princeton 6, Middle Tennessee State 5, East Tennessee State 4, American 3, Detroit 3, Lehigh 3, Chicago State 2, Loyola (Chicago) 2, South Dakota 2, Austin Peay 1, Denver 1, Quinnipiac 1.

VOTING PANEL: Randy Bennett (St. Mary's), Will Brown (Albany), Rick Byrd (Belmont), Dave Calloway (Monmouth), Kermit Davis (Middle Tennessee), Steve Donahue (Cornell), Anthony Evans (Norfolk State), James Fox (Davidson), Mike Gillian (Longwood), Steve Hawkins (Western Michigan), Dick Hunsaker (Utah Valley), Eddie Jackson (American), Kerry Keating (Santa Clara) *, Billy Kennedy (Murray State), Tod Kowalczyk (UW-Green Bay), Jim Larranaga (George Mason), Jim Les (Bradley), Mike Lonergan (Vermont), Bob Marlin (Sam Houston State), Gregg Marshall (Wichita State), Tom Moore (Quinnipiac), Jimmy Patsos (Loyola MD), Tom Pecora (Hofstra), Vann Pettaway (Alabama A&M), Rick Scruggs (Gardner-Webb), John Shulman (Chattanooga), Brad Stevens (Butler), Gary Stewart (UC Davis), Scott Sutton (Oral Roberts), Wayne Tinkle (Montana), Ernie Zeigler (Central Michigan)..

* Santa Clara head coach Kerry Keating is the chairman of the Top 25 voting panel for the 2008-09 season.

NOTE: The Mid-Major Poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Great West, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast.

The CollegeInsider.Com Mid-Major Top 25 is now in its eleventh season of existence.

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