Recapping the Premature Hoops BlogPoll '07

Well, there you have it. The Premature FanHouse Hoops BlogPoll for 2007 is complete. After the jump is the full list with links to each of the top-26 team post/preview.

The voting for #1 was very close. One point separated Memphis from North Carolina after tallying the ballots. Memphis even appeared #1 on one more ballot than UNC, but there was a little more consistent top-tier support for UNC in the voting. Kansas and UCLA each received a vote as the #1 preseason team, and the final point totals between Kansas and UCLA was only 2 points difference.

All of the top-10 teams appeared on every ballot as did USC. The entire top-20 appeared on over half the ballots.

As for major conference breakdowns:

Pac-10: 6 teams
Big East: 5 teams
ACC: 3 teams
SEC: 3 teams
Big 12: 3 teams
Big 10: 2 teams

The other four teams came from Conference USA, the West Coast Conference, Atlantic-10 and Missouri Valley Conference.

The Pac-10 is heading into the season believed to be the deepest conference this season. Considering only 2 of the 7 FanHouse College Basketball bloggers are based on the West Coast, the Pac-10 is getting a lot of early respect. The Big 10, not so much.

Heck, if this was before conference realignment, the big story would be Conference USA dominance as the old C-USA would have had three teams in the top-10 (Memphis, Louisville and Marquette) rather than one