Stanford Adds 4 More 1st-Place Votes, BYU Still #1 in Coaches’ Poll

  0 Braden Keith | November 12th, 2018 | News

The Stanford Cardinal continued to chip away at BYU’s lead as the #1 team in the AVCA coaches’ poll in week 12. Stanford, who are ranked #1 by the computers in the RPI rankings, peeled 4 votes away from BYU in the latest ranking. While the undefeated Cougars are still the top team in the vast majority of coaches’ brackets, they are slightly-more controversial. Every voting coach in the poll except 1 had Stanford ranked #1 or #2 (the only exception is Morgan State head coach Ramona Riley-Bozier, who had Stanford ranked #3).

4 coaches, meanwhile, pegged BYU as #3 – Matt Ulmer from Oregon (in the same conference as Stanford); Sam Crosson from Cal Poly; Liz Hart from Northern Kentucky; and Shawn Garus from Boise State.

Every one of those coaches had Minnesota at #2. Of that group, only Ulmer’s team has played any of those top 3. Ulmer’s Ducks lost 3-1 to Stanford twice, but beat Minnesota 3-1 – and he elevated the Gophers over BYU in his poll.

(Only 2 Pac-12 head coaches and only 1 WCC head coach have voted in this year’s coaches’ poll).

The top 12 in this year’s poll all remained the same, with the first change coming when Florida jumped USC for 13th, with neither the coaches nor the computers penalizing the Trojans much for their 3-1 loss to #20 Washington (though Washington was rewarded by the coaches, jumping 5 spots from 25 to 20).

Rank School (First-Place Votes) Total Points Adjusted 2018 Record Previous Week
1 BYU (48) 1580 25-0 1
2 Stanford (16) 1551 24-1 2
3 Minnesota 1477 22-2 3
4 Illinois 1399 24-3 4
5 Texas 1336 17-4 5
6 Nebraska 1247 20-6 6
T-7 Penn State 1153 20-6 7
T-7 Wisconsin 1153 18-6 8
9 Creighton 1083 24-4 9
10 Pittsburgh 1039 26-1 10
11 Kentucky 1003 20-4 11
12 Purdue 847 21-6 12
13 Florida 809 21-5 14
14 Southern California 736 19-8 13
15 Cal Poly 706 23-2 16
16 Oregon 649 17-9 17
17 Marquette 571 24-5 18
18 Washington State 483 19-7 19
19 Michigan 459 19-8 15
20 Washington 349 17-9 25
21 UCF 279 24-3 22
22 Tennessee 216 21-5 23
23 Missouri 188 22-5 24
24 Arizona 157 19-9 20
25 UCLA 91 12-11 21

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Baylor 65; Northern Iowa 49; Louisville 37; South Carolina 27; Denver 17; Florida State 15; Colorado 10; Utah 9; Kansas 8

Four teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of seven combined points.

Next Poll: November 19

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