Wildcat Blue Nation Writers and Fan Top 25 College Basketball Poll

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WEEK OF 02/01/2016

This is the Wildcat Blue Nation writers top 25 basketball poll for the 2015-2016 season. We have received our second entry for the fan poll this week. We still want to do a fan poll as well, we will need more participants, see at the bottom of the post how to contribute. We had our writers from WBN and some friends of the site give us their top 25, and I compiled it together, and I think it’s a fairly accurate representation of this weeks poll.

Here are the participants for our WBN writers poll this week.

Brian Eldridge – Nation of Blue (@BriEldrige)

Jason Marcum – Site manager of A Sea of Blue (@marcum89)

Patrick Loney – Scout.com and AllWildcats.com (@PatrickLoney)

Paul Jordan – Founder of Wildcat Blue Nation (@PJordan_32714)

Shelby Caudill – Site Manager of Wildcat Blue Nation (@ShelbyC_WBN)

Terry Brown – Wildcat Blue Nation (@TBrown_80)

Tyler Cox – Wildcat Blue Nation (@bleedkyblue)

And now without any further ado, here is this weeks WBN writers poll:

1. North Carolina(4) – 19-2

2. Oklahoma(2) – 18-2

3. Xavier – 19-2

4. Maryland – 19-3

5. Villanova – 18-3

6. Iowa – 17-4

7. Kansas – 17-4

8. Virginia – 17-4

9. Texas A&M – 18-3

10. Michigan State – 19-4

11. Providence – 18-4

12. Iowa State – 16-5

13. Baylor – 17-4

14. SMU – 19-1

15. West Virginia – 17-4

16. Miami – 16-4

17. Purdue – 19-4

18. Kentucky – 16-5

19. Oregon – 18-4

20. Indiana – 18-4

21. Dayton– 18-3

22. Saint Mary’s – 18-2

23. Louisville – 17-4

24. Arizona – 17-5

25. South Carolina – 19-2

FAN POLL

This week we had our first fan entry for a top 25 college basketball poll. Thanks to BIGBLUEBD who doesn’t have a twitter account but uses this name for various contests on ESPN, Fox Sports and so on. So, here is BIGBLUEBD’s poll:

1. North Carolina – 19-2

2. Oklahoma – 18-2

3. Villanova – 18-3

4. Maryland – 19-3

5. Xavier – 19-2

6. Kansas – 17-4

7. Iowa – 17-4

8. Texas A&M – 18-3

9. Michigan State – 19-4

10. Virginia – 17-4

11. West Virginia – 17-4

12. Providence – 18-4

13. Arizona – 17-5

14. Miami – 16-4

15. Baylor – 17-4

16. Kentucky – 16-5

17. Iowa State 16-5

18. Purdue 19-4

19. Louisville – 17-4

20. Indiana – 18-4

21. South Carolina – 19-2

22. Pittsburgh – 17-4

23. Oregon – 18-4

24. Wichita State – 16-5

25. Duke – 15-6

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Hey BBN, we would like to hear from you. Every week from here on out we will be doing a Wildcat Blue Nation writers/friends top 25 poll and a fans poll. So here is where you come in to help. All you have to do every Sunday is email us at wildcatbluenation@gmail.com your top 25. Also, along with the email send us your name and twitter handle if you have one so we can acknowledge you.

I will put the polls up every Monday, so keep an eye out. Make sure that you give us a full 25 teams, and any entries that are completely bogus, for example if your top 5 looks like this:

Holy Cross
High Point
Indiana
Long Beach State
Louisville

We will have to disregard your entry. So, don’t get ridiculous with your rankings, be real about it. Other than that it is your rankings and we’ll take them and put them with our fellow fans and get a general consensus.

Again, every Sunday email wildcatbluenation@gmail.com your top 25. I will send out a reminder Saturday night to get your rankings in. We will be doing a SEC power rankings once we get into SEC play as well. I will keep you posted when we start doing that. Thank you BBN and we look forward to hearing from you!

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