The Holy Land of Hoops

EDIT: THIS LIST IS OUTDATED... WILL UPDATE LATER...
This is the list I found of voters in the AP Poll. I think this is up-to-date, though I found 64 voters and there were 65 first-place votes last week.

We all pretty much realize that Creighton got hosed in the polls this week. Here is the list of the voters, broken down by region. I included the city that their paper is located if I recognized it, but I didn't take the time to look up the ones I didn't know.

I'm not saying that these voters have an intentional bias, but they are probably more familiar with schools that are nearby.

Total: 64 voters.
- Southeast Coast: 10.
- Deep South: 13.
- Big-12 Country: 6.
- West: 12.
- Northeast: 11.
- Midwest: 9.
- National: 3.

SOUTHEAST COAST (10):
Maryland - Pete Gilbert - WBAL-TV. (Baltimore MD).
Maryland - John McNamara - The Capital. (Annapolis MD).
North Carolina - Dan Wiederer - Fayetteville Observer.
North Carolina - Steve Wiseman - Herald-Sun.
North Carolina - Bob Sutton - Times-News.
South Carolina - Steven Bradley - The Journal.
South Carolina - Ron Morris - The State.
Virginia - Whitelaw Reid - Daily Progress.
Virginia - Mark Berman - Roanoke Times.
Virginia - Steve DeShazo - Free Lance-Star.

DEEP SOUTH (13):
Alabama - Izzy Gould - Birmingham News. (Birmingham AL).
Alabama - David Morrison - Opelika-Auburn News. (Auburn AL).
Arkansas - Bob Holt - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Florida - Kevin Brockaway - Gainesville Sun. (Gainesville FL).
Florida - Joey Johnston - The Tampa Tribune. (Tampa FL).
Georgia - Roger Clarkston - Athens Banner-Herald. (Athens GA).
Kentucky - Jerry Tipton - Lexington Herald-Leader. (Lexington KY).
Louisiana - Gary Laney - The Advocate.
Louisiana Joshua Parrott - The Daily Advertiser.
Mississippi - John Pitts - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
Missouri - Steve Walentik - Columbia Daily Tribune.
Tennessee - Jeff Lockridge - The Tennessean.
Tennessee - Marcus A. Hunter - WHBQ-TV.

BIG 12 COUNTRY (6):
Kansas - Tom Keegan - Lawrence Journal-World. (Lawrence KS).
Oklahoma - John Shinn - The Norman Transcript.
Texas - Kate Hairopoulos - Dallas Morning News.
Texas - Jeffrey Martin - Houston Chronicle. (Houston TX).
Texas - John Werner - Waco Tribune-Herald. (Waco TX).
West Virginia - Mitch Vingle - Charleston Gazette. (Charleston WV)

WEST (12):
Arizona - Bruce Pascoe - Arizona Daily Star.
California - Scott Reid - Orange County Register. (Anaheim CA).
California - Scott Wolf - Los Angeles Daily News. (Los Angeles CA).
California - Jon Wilner - San Jose Mercury News. (San Jose CA).
Colorado - Ryan Thorburn - Daily Camera.
Hawaii - Paul Arnett - Honolulu Star-Advertiser. (Honolulu HI).
Idaho - Nick Jezierny - The Idaho Statesman.
Montana - Scott Mansch - Great Falls Tribune.
Nevada - Ed Graney - Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Oregon - George Schroeder - Register-Guard.
Utah - Jason Franchuk - Provo Daily Herald.
Washington - Scott Johnson - Daily Herald.

NORTHEAST (11):
Connecticut - Dave Borges - New Haven Register. (New Haven).
DC- Kevin Dunleavy - Washington Examiner. (Washington).
Massachusetts - Jeff Goodman - Fox Sports.
New Jersey - Jerry Carino - Gannett, New Jersey. (NJ)
New York - Cormac Gordon - Staten Island Advance. (NYC)
New York - J.P. Butler - Olean Times Herald. (Olean NY, St Bona.)
New York - Dick Weiss - NY Daily News. (NYC)
Pennsylvania - Dave Jones - The Patriot-News.
Pennsylvania - Joe Juliano - Philadelphia Inquirer. (Philadelphia PA).
Pennsylvania - Dave Mackall - Pittsburgh Tribune Review. (Pittsburgh PA).
Rhode Island - Kevin McNamara - Providence Journal. (Providence RI).

MIDWEST (9):
Illinois - Paul Klee - The News Gazette.
Illinois - Lindsey Willhite - The Daily Herald.
Indiana - Terry Hutchens - The Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis.
Indiana - LaMond Pope - Journal Gazette.
Iowa - John Bohnenkamp - The Hawk Eye.
Michigan - Michael Rothstein - annarbor.com . (Michigan).
Ohio - Elton Alexander - Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ohio - Matt McCoy - WTVN-AM.
Wisconsin - Todd Rosiak - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

NATIONAL (3):
NATIONAL - Seth Davis - Sports Illustrated.
NATIONAL - John Feinstein - National Public Radio.
NATIONAL - Dick Vitale - ESPN.

Jerry Carino ‏@NJHoopsHaven 17h
Well, I did one smart thing today: Keeping Creighton on my Top 25 ballot. Obviously not enough voters did the same.

Jersey blogger who covers local highschool hoops and SHU and Rutgers. Really follows the big east well. Jersey has your back Creighton!

Not sure where you are going with this list. The 'Big 12' list is six voters, yet they have six in the AP Top 25. Cannot see an obvious bias from this overall listing.

Rest assured, unless Creighton slips up versus Georgetown, they will be back in the Top 25. Baylor took it on the chin yesterday, so they will drop out opening up a spot.

HoosierPal wrote:Not sure where you are going with this list. The 'Big 12' list is six voters, yet they have six in the AP Top 25. Cannot see an obvious bias from this overall listing.

Rest assured, unless Creighton slips up versus Georgetown, they will be back in the Top 25. Baylor took it on the chin yesterday, so they will drop out opening up a spot.

I'm trying to get a sense of where the AP votes come from. I'm assuming familiarity with a school will possibly lean a voter towards that school or conference. No conspiracy, just basic human nature.

For example, the voter from New Haven saw SMU beat UConn, so he included SMU in his Top-25. That same voter left Creighton off his ballot. Seeing that there is no Nebraska voter, the voters may not be too familiar with the Jays and maybe didn't study their complete body of work.

The Providence voter kept Creighton at 19, and had Xavier at 25.
The Newark voter had Creighton at 25.

Note: this list might be outdated... sorry if that's the case... when I get a chance I'll double-check it...