Lax poll 3/20 - 6th to 5th to 3rd

[billhoward]

USILA poll 3/20/2006. Cornell is third, fifth last week, sixth before. A week from now we'll be in first or second, or back around fifth. Wonder if everyone we beat winds up with two points in the poll a week or two later?

Plc Team          Record    Points 1st  Last 
 1  Virginia      8- 0- 0   159    7    2
 2  Duke          6- 1- 0   150    1    3
 3  Cornell       4- 0- 0   140         5
 4  Maryland      4- 1- 0   136       1 5
 5  Hofstra       4- 1- 0   126         9
 6  Georgetown    4- 1- 0   117         8
 7  Princeton     2- 2- 0    98         6
 8  Navy          5- 1- 0    96         4
 9  Johns Hopkins 3- 2- 0    95        13
10  Massachusetts 4- 1- 0    90         7
11  Notre Dame    4- 1- 0    88        11
12  Denver        4- 1- 0    77        14
13  Delaware      8- 1- 0    58        12
14  Pennsylvania  5- 0- 0    57        15
15  Syracuse      1- 3- 0    47        10
16  Binghamton    4- 1- 0    40        NR
17  Albany        3- 2- 0    38        NR
18  Colgate       5- 1- 0    22        NR
19  Loyola        3- 2- 0    13        18
20  Bucknell      3- 3- 0    11        NR
also rans: Towson 8, Hobart 6, Fairfield 5, Yale 3, Army 2, Lehigh 2, UMBC 2

[Chris \'03]

The Red claim the top spot from the Swami in his Top 16 this week: http://www.laxswami.com/tw06-05.html

Oh, Happy Day!

[billhoward]

Swami grudgingly puts Cornell #1:

>>> Cornell was riding in 5th place in (last week's) USILA Poll. At that spot last week, the Big Red were clearly overrated. True, Cornell was undefeated, but its four wins came over Lehigh, Binghamton, Army, and Notre Dame--and the Notre Dame win was distinctly unimpressive (9-6). Cornell belonged no higher than somewhere in the #7-#10 range until it beat someone higher. That happened last Tuesday, when Cornell defeated Duke in Durham. Since Duke was the Swami's #1 team, and Cornell has no losses, that title is now forfeited to Cornell.

[Al DeFlorio]

Swami's a pretentious windbag. ::snore::

[Chris \'03]

He has to get some credit for pretty much nailing Cornell's final placement in his season preview each of the last four or so seasons.

Hopefully he's way off this year because he was pretty down on the Red preseason.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Chris '03]He has to get some credit for pretty much nailing Cornell's final placement in his season preview each of the last four or so seasons. [/quote]

You can be smart and a pretentious windbag at the same time

[Josh '99]

[quote DeltaOne81][quote Chris '03]He has to get some credit for pretty much nailing Cornell's final placement in his season preview each of the last four or so seasons. [/quote]

You can be smart and a pretentious windbag at the same time [/quote]A good 25% of the posters on this board fit into that category, for instance.  B-]

[Chris \'03]

[quote DeltaOne81]

You can be smart and a pretentious windbag at the same time [/quote]

Can't argue with that.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Swami's a pretentious windbag. ::snore::[/quote]

Yes, but he knows he's a pretentious windbag.  Swami strikes me as a smart guy wrapped in an outrageous persona.  Kind of like a more extreme version of Greg. :-}