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Something that almost went unnoticed by those following the MVC-
Yesterday's polls showed Northern Iowa got votes for the Top 25 polls for the first time. They got 15 votes in the AP Media poll, which would rank them #33, and in the USA Today Coaches poll they got 5 votes, which would rank them #37.
I thought after UNI lost a lot to graduation last year, that Wichita State would be the only team getting Top 25 votes from the MVC, but UNI has been a surprise.
For the record, Wichita State was ranked 10th and 12th in the two polls in the preseason, and 9th and 11th in the week 2 polls. But then as they accumulated losses, they quickly dropped completely out of the Top 25 by week 4, and in fact did not even receive a single vote by week 4 in the AP poll, and just 2 in the USA Today Coaches poll. They started receiving a few votes again last week after wins over UNLV and Utah, but this week, after their loss to Seton Hall, their vote total in both polls dropped to zero again.
Yesterday's polls showed Northern Iowa got votes for the Top 25 polls for the first time. They got 15 votes in the AP Media poll, which would rank them #33, and in the USA Today Coaches poll they got 5 votes, which would rank them #37.
I thought after UNI lost a lot to graduation last year, that Wichita State would be the only team getting Top 25 votes from the MVC, but UNI has been a surprise.
For the record, Wichita State was ranked 10th and 12th in the two polls in the preseason, and 9th and 11th in the week 2 polls. But then as they accumulated losses, they quickly dropped completely out of the Top 25 by week 4, and in fact did not even receive a single vote by week 4 in the AP poll, and just 2 in the USA Today Coaches poll. They started receiving a few votes again last week after wins over UNLV and Utah, but this week, after their loss to Seton Hall, their vote total in both polls dropped to zero again.