Cornell Moves into Top 5 of 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 December 7 (week no. 4) edition of the CollegeInsider.com Mid Major Top 25 Poll, Cornell moved up from its No. 10 ranking to No. 5. Cornell's rankings this season are as follows:

• December 7 (week No. 4) edition (Cornell No. 5)
  
• November 30 (week No. 3) edition (Cornell Ranked No. 10)
  
• November 23 (week No. 2) edition (Cornell Ranked No. 10)
  
• November 16 (week No. 1) edition (Cornell Ranked No. 10)
  
• Preseason edition (Cornell Ranked No. 18)

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-COLLEGEINSIDER.COM

		Record	Points	Previous
1.	Butler (18)	6-2	754	2
2.	Gonzaga (11)	6-2	736	1
3.	Northern Iowa (1)	5-1	671	4
4.	Illinois State	7-0	609	5
5.	Cornell	7-2	582	10
6.	VCU	5-2	577	6
7.	Old Dominion	5-3	518	7
8.	St. Mary's (1)	6-1	506	13
9.	Siena	5-3	505	8
10.	Portland	5-3	463	3
11.	Niagara	6-3	372	15
12.	Rider	6-3	351	14
13.	Murray State	7-1	345	16
14.	Wright State	5-2	316	20
15.	Western Carolina	7-1	294	25
16.	Akron	4-3	261	11
17.	Detroit	6-2	241	22
18.	Western Kentucky	3-3	233	9
19.	Long Beach State	4-3	202	19
20.	William & Mary	6-2	195	NR
21.	Missouri State	7-0	171	NR
22.	Northern Colorado	8-1	153	23
23.	Bradley	5-2	128	24
24.	George Mason	4-4	123	12
25.	Wisconsin Green Bay	8-2	71	NR

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Pacific 61, Wichita State 55, Indiana State 53, Ohio 52, South Alabama 51, Texas San Antonio 49, IUPUI 38, Harvard 34, Coastal Carolina 33, Belmont 31, Northeastern 19, Stony Brook 19, Cal State Fullerton 17, Creighton 16, Buffalo 14, Sam Houston State 12, Southeastern Louisiana 12, Jacksonville 11, Iona 10, Southern Illinois 10, Eastern Michigan 9, San Diego 9, Davidson 8, Fairfield 8, Montana 8, UC Santa Barbara 8, Kent State 7, Morgan State 7, Radford 7, Wofford 7, Boston University 4, Cleveland State 4, Campbell 3, Denver 3, Hofstra 3, Army 1, College of Charleston 1, Eastern Kentucky 1, Morehead State 1, New Orleans 1, North Texas 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.