2008-2009 Power Poll

NBE BIG EAST POWER POLL (12/8/2008)

Well, the 2008-2009 college basketball regular season is upon us. NBE Basketball Report writers and contributors cast their ballots this week to vote on the weekly conference power poll as well as a Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week. Here are the results (with 1st place votes in parenthesis):

NBE Basketball Big East Power Poll:

1) Connecticut (4): 79 points.
2) Pittsburgh (1): 75 points.
3) Syracuse: 69 points.
4) Louisville: 63 points.
5) Georgetown: 57 points.
6) Villanova: 55 points.
7) Notre Dame: 54 points.
8: Marquette: 48 points.
9) West Virginia: 39 points.
10) Seton Hall: 34 points.
11) Cincinnati: 29 points.
12) Providence: 23 points.
13) St. John’s: 21 points.
14) DePaul: 18 points.
15) South Florida: 10 points.
16) Rutgers: 6 points.

Player of the Week: Hasheem Thabeet (Connecticut)

Freshman of the Week: Mike Rosario (Rutgers)

Here is the list of participants in the voting:

NBE Blogger, Publisher of the NBE Basketball Report.

Nathan Wollack, Publisher/Founder of BlueDemonsNation.com and helps out as co-Publisher of our DePaul Team Blog Site.

Chris Dokish, Contributing editor of the Pittsburgh Sports Report and author of the NBE Basketball’s Big East All-Time Top 50 Players. Chris is also co-Publisher of our Pittsburgh Team Blog Site.

Doug Ferguson, Midwest Editor and NBA Analyst for NBE Basketball Report.

Matt Whitfield, NBE Reporter and co-Publisher of our West Virginia Team Blog Site