BURN THE HORSE
Do AP poll voters think before casting their ballots?The Associated Press released it's women's basketball preseason top 25 poll today. UALR received three votes to finish toward the bottom of the list of those receiving votes. That UALR wasn't in the top 25 wasn't a surprise, but that they only got three votes (points) was a huge surprise.
A bigger surprise comes several notches up that receiving votes ladder. There you'll find Georgia Tech, which received 73 points. Georgia Tech? Really? Are we missing something here?
This is a UALR team that returns four of its five starters, including its best player from last year. It's virtually the same team that dismantled Georgia Tech on a neutral court last March. And Georgia Tech's best player has graduated and moved on.
The bottom line is that UALR has earned a lot of respect locally, but very little nationally. Of the 40 voters who cast ballots in the Associated Press Top 25, only two wrote down "Arkansas-Little Rock.
UALR's three points consided of a No. 25 vote (1 point) from Monte Hale of the newspaper in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and a No. 24 vote (2 points) from Jeff Linder of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, newspaper
