Art imitates life

From NCAABB FanHouse:

It's silly to vote for either Mercer or Gardner-Webb in the Top 25. There is absolutely no way that either of these two teams is one of the 25 best in the country. It's not possible. It's highly unlikely that either team is even one of the 100 best teams in the country, although Jeff Sagarin currently has Gardner-Webb at No. 93. (Mercer is No. 165.)

So why rank them in the Top 25? I assume it's just that some of the AP voters realize how silly it is to vote on a Top 25 in November and want to do something to shake things up. Even in March the polls mean absolutely nothing in college basketball, but in November they mean less than nothing, so in that respect I can kind of see why someone might want to vote for a team like Mercer or Gardner-Webb.

That actually sums up my view of it, and it was very interesting to see some of the blogpollers putting Gardner-Webb at #25. But for the most part what everyone in the blogpoll is saying is that "Hey, it's only November. This is pretty meaningless at this stage anyways."

But that doesn't stop people from arguing about them.