NCAA | Washington ranked seventh in media poll

Pac-12 continues to dominate voting, but NCAA and RPI don't fully agree

-Volleyblog Seattle photo
by Leslie Hamann

Reporters had their differences with both the latest RPI and the NCAA tournament committee in the November 27, 2012 Volleyball Magazine media poll.

In the opinion of media, the NCAA had too low an opinion of two teams in this weekend’s Seattle first/second round. They judged 13^th seeded Washington as the 7^th best team, and unseeded Hawai’i as the 8^th best.

Reporters also thought #10 Nebraska was ranked too high at 4^th seed, #20 Iowa State too high at 11^th seed, and unranked Kentucky too high at #16.

As usual, Pac-12 schools fare poorly in RPI. Louisville skates in at #4, despite playing in a relatively weak conference; Oregon, USC and Washington appear to be punished for playing in the much tougher Pac-12.

VBM Rank	School (First-Place Votes)	Total Points	2012 Record	NCAA seed	RPI
1	Penn State (10)	200	28-2	1	2
2	Stanford	190	27-3	2	1
3	Oregon	168	25-4	5	10
4	UCLA	165	22-7	7	6
5	USC	157	27-5	6	13
6	Texas	156	23-4	3	3
7	Washington	135	23-6	13	16
8	Hawaii	130	25-2	NS	17
9	Louisville	118	29-3	10	4
10	Nebraska	115	23-6	4	5
11	Minnesota	101	24-7	8	9
12	Florida State	98	27-3	9	8
13	Florida	80	25-4	14	12
14	BYU	53	26-3	12	11
15	Dayton	50	26-4	NS	20
16	Iowa State	47	20-7	15	18
17	Ohio State	35	22-10	NS	25
18	San Diego	31	21-6	NS	24
19	Western Kentucky	25	32-3	NS	28
20	Kansas	15	25-6	11	7

Others Receiving Votes Kansas, Miami, Creighton, Michigan State, Purdue, Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky, Texas A&M

Volleyblog Seattle is one of ten national voters in the weekly poll.

Voters for this poll are made up of coaches, media and sports information directors from across the country. It will be published weekly each Tuesday leading up to the NCAA Tournament and then a final poll after the NCAA Championship.

see also:

Making Sense of the RPI

How the Top 20 fared

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WRITTEN BY: Jack Hamann | PHOTOGRAPHY: Leslie Hamann

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