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[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
ESPN has been taking a straw poll of 54 national basketball writers over the course of the season to track the outlook in the Player of the Year race. Each of the writers surveyed has a vote in at least one of the four major POY awards (USBWA, Wooden, Naismith and AP), so it is probably the most accurate projection of how the actual voting will look as it goes down over the season’s final weeks. That’s why I’m pleased to tell you that Anthony Davis, for the first time this season, came out on top of the voting.
After gradually closing the gap between himself and Thomas Robinson the last few weeks, Davis finally overtook the Kansas big man in the straw poll, although he was in first by the slimmest margin in the history of the voting. With a first-place vote worth three points, a second-place worth two and third-place worth one, Davis topped Robinson 146-143 in the voting. He took 32 first-place votes to Robinson’s 26, and was on top despite being completely left off of one person’s ballot. That person is an idiot, and it would be a lot more comical that they left Davis off if the idiot didn’t have a real vote for a real award. Still, it’s a testament to how much of an impact Davis is making that he can win the poll even without appearing on every ballot, which Robinson did.
Michigan State’s Draymond Green is the only other player to appear on a significant number of ballots and finished third, while Murray State’s Isaiah Canaan got 1.5 third-place votes, putting him in 7th place. The most interesting part of this week’s update, though, may be finding out when each of the POY ballots are due. The USBWA ballot is due this Sunday, the Naismith is due March 9th, the AP is due on Selection Sunday and the Wooden Award ballot allows for some postseason play to be included and is due on March 19th. That means it’s likely that we’re looking at some kind of a split of the major honors, and that there’s still time for each of the frontrunners to make final impressions for some of the awards. This is one of the closest POY races ever and it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. Interesting, that is, as long as Anthony Davis wins some awards. Otherwise, it’s crap. You can see the full breakdown of the voting at the link below.
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March 2nd, 2012 at 9:34 pm
They released that poll two days ago…
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Bet the general (I hate UK Bobby) is boiling
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Are you kidding me??
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ViBEnau5KN0/T06txHucFQI/AAAAAAAABL8/NemRQZtIFRQ/s640/davis1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.everythingkentuckyonline.com/&h=640&w=478&sz=32&tbnid=mcGY80NV9AS3YM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=63&zoom=1&docid=svKlFdMwrIxpWM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KYRRT_u3Ks_Mtgf-t_XNAg&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQ9QEwCw&dur=100
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Booby Nite doesn’t get a vote does he? If so, I think we’ve got our one dumb voter.
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:51 pm
I’d bet that the one ballot Davis does not appear on at all probably is somehow Bobby Knight’s vote.. How else could anyone leave Big A off.. Not 1st, 2nd or 3rd? Unless they get a vote without knowing a damn thing about college basketball. I’ve watched a lot of games and somehow, UK and Anthony are mentioned 80% of the time or better, even if it’s mid-major games. Get real, Anthony Davis is POY! Go Cats!
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:54 pm
I am from West liberty but just moved to ashland last month, BBN please pray for everyone of my friends and family tonight, I haven’t been able to get ahold of anyone so all I can do is just ask you all to pray for them.
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:36 pm
kidd-gilly on espn draft page – http://espn.go.com/nba/draft
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Yeah, I said it’s all in your mind, baby
You gotta spread your wings and just fly, baby.
You feel like you’re reborn?
… That’s my baby.
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:50 pm
yeah!!!!! http://bit.ly/AA7ZBI
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Seth Davis must have missed the Georgia game…
“Kentucky: Kentucky’s Achilles’ heel is its three-point shooting.”
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/seth_davis/02/29/scouting.reports/1.html
posted this morning…. and even updated at noon….
March 2nd, 2012 at 11:05 pm
# 3. Thaks for sharing. That was the biggest piece of crap I have ever read, and also reflects the knowledge of the current sports media. I’ll take a real Kentucky fan to analyze basketball over all the bloggers and talking heads. Go CATS!!!
March 3rd, 2012 at 12:29 am
For a grown man to treat a 18 year old kid this way kindly says everything you need to know about knight he’s acting like a classless 3 year old wish someone in the media would half ass do their job and call him out on air
March 3rd, 2012 at 9:12 am
bbn should help get the Rupp trophy back in the limelight…
March 3rd, 2012 at 12:53 pm
http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/compare?add=thomas-robinson&p1=3-anthony-davis
Not…..even………close
March 3rd, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Best I can remember,Davis finished the game on Nov 15 with 2 personal fouls and 7 blocked shots. Robinson was on pouting on the bench with 5 personal fouls, his tail in his crack, and multiple mirror images of the Spalding logo on his forehead. Case closed. Point blank period.