New Poll of the Week...err...Month...just vote it's a new poll

Gooooood evening AU Hoops fans! Hope you all won money in your respective NCAA tourney office pools. I know I didn't. Damn you, Duke. More on that in a minute.

As you can see, our progress here has slowed a little bit since the Eagles are now in the off-season. Still, we'll update from time to time with some new content for you all to chew on.

Weekly Poll is a Litttttle Late

Well, you all are pretty confident that you want a message board at AUHoops, so we'll take a look at that and look at how to integrate one for next season.

For this week though (well, the next two days), I want to know if anyone is actually going to make the trek up to Easton to see the guys play. As I mentioned before, because it's 8pm on a Sunday I won't be able to, but I'm curious to see if there will be any AU contingent there.

Let us know!

Pro deo et patria and GO EAGLES!

Poll of the Week Wants to Know About a Potential Message Board

So because it got bumped down by a few other posts, the commenting on my latest Speculation Tuesday was a little underwhelming. So I'm going to solicit some opinions via a poll. I hope you'll take the time to vote, and comment, on this so that I know people's opinions about adding a message board to the blog.

Anyway, last week I asked: "Who would you like AU to play in the quarterfinals?"

It turns out, I should've added Navy to that list because there's a good chance we'll be playing them in the first round. Well, I didn't. Ah well. Here are the results from last week:

Bucknell	2 (4%)
Colgate	17 (39%)
Holy Cross	8 (18%)
Lafayette	16 (37%)

I have to say I agree. We definitely either want Lafayette or Colgate. No one wants Bucknell. AU never wants Holy Cross (even in a down year). I think this is the order in which we'd want to play other the other available teams: Lafayette, Colgate, Navy, Holy Cross, Bucknell.

Pro deo et patria and GO EAGLES!

Oh you'll get your new poll of the week, don't you worry your pretty little heads

My inbox was FLOODED today with people who were outraged about my not putting up a new weekly poll question yesterday. Okay, not really, no one even mentioned it. But I'm here tonight to give you a new poll question. First let's talk about last week's. I'm torn between losing in the PL Quarterfinals and losing in the PL Semifinals. If we have a home game, I think we win the quarterfinals. If we don't have a home game, I think we lose in the quarterfinals. You folks all seem to be pretty evenly split between those two choices and, inexplicably, us winning the 2010 NCAA Championship. I didn't ask what was going to happen NEXT year, folks.

Weekly Poll: The No's Have It, But the No's WERE WRONG

Kind of a lame weekly poll last week. You were all more or less evenly split about whether or not we'd actually have the game on Saturday. (We had the game on Saturday). If you said no (48%), FOR SHAME. If you said yes (43%), BOOYAKASHA YOU'RE A WINNER.

If you were all voters, Vlad would impale his way to PL Player of the Year

Goooood evening AU Hoops fans! Be advised that the Lehigh game may have some trouble being played this weekend as another snowpocalypse is making its way toward DC. Projects are for 12-20", and if the Hill Pigeons have some trouble getting down then we may not be playing until Superbowl Sunday, which would be quite a day of sports.

Anyway, it's Wednesday, and that means poll of the week time!

New Poll Wants to Know: Who's the PL Player of the Year?

Now, now, we know who we WANT to be Patriot League Player of the Year, but who actually deserves to have that title? Lots of candidates this year. I include one from every school except for Lafayette and Bucknell in the poll. Why? Because I don't like Lafayette, and Bucknell has no one deserving, that's why.

Last week's results are a little skewed because of some attention we drew from some Holy Cross fans. Still, it seems that a lot of you profess to be at every game, which is exciting and encouraging! Keep that up!

Results:

How many men's basketball games will you attend this year?

0	18 (29%)
1-3	3 (4%)
4-6	1 (1%)
7-9	6 (9%)
10-12	9 (14%)
Miss a game? I'd sooner die.	25 (40%

Pro deo et patria and GO EAGLES!

Well Let's Hope that our Eagles Exceed the Weekly Poll Expectations!

Evening folks, I'll be putting the liveblog up shortly, but I wanted to recap this past week's poll.

68% of you think that we will win 6 games or less. That would probably put us somewhere in 6th-8th place in the PL. We were picked to finish 6th in the pre-season poll, so that seems about right.

Still, let's hope that our Eagles can exceed the poll's expectations. Though they certainly will not be able to meet the 13 victories that one of you voted for, a 12-win PL season is still very possible!

Poll of the Week Says Lumpkins Should Be Starting

In a pretty overwhelming poll result, 65% of those polled in the past week said that Lumpkins should reclaim his place as a starter and at Riley Grafft's expense (46%). While Blake and Simon received 24 and 28% respectively to sit, there wasn't a clear consensus about who should replace them. A clear-cut case of we know what we don't like when we see it, but we don't know what we'd like better? Oh, you AU Hoops fans, you're so fickle. What do you think about these poll results? What do they suggest to you? Here are the full results:

(Usual) Starter Who Shouldn't Start?

Riley Grafft 23 (46%)
Nick Hendra 3 (6%)
Blake Jolivette 12 (24%)
Simon McCormack 14 (28%)
Vlad Moldoveanu 4 (8%)

Total: 50

Non-Starter Who Should Start?

Mike Bersch 9 (16%)
Joe Hill 8 (14%)
Stephen Lumpkins 36 (65%)
Steve Luptak 1 (1%)
Daniel Munoz 6 (10%)
Matthew Wilson 5 (9%)

Total: 55

This week, prognosticate about how many Patriot League wins the Eagles will get. Obviously we can't get more than 13 since we're already 0-1. Have at it!

I'm not sure if Josh is going to get a preview up or not, but join us at 7pm for the liveblog either way! Be sure to leave your predictions in the comments!

Pro deo et patria and GO EAGLES!

Poll of the Week Doubles Your Pleasure, Doubles Your Say

As you can see the new Poll of the Week is up! But wait, there's two!? That's right, two poll questions this week. If you could make roster changes, who would it be? Sorry I didn't include all the bench players on the right-hand list, if you want to make a strong case for someone not listed you can do so in the comments.

Here's the results of last week's poll:

Would disabling anonymous commenting discourage you from commenting?
Absolutely, Yes 4 (12%)
Maybe, Yes 13 (41%)
Absolutely Not 7 (22%)
Maybe Not 4 (12%)
I don't comment now 3 (9%)

Since over 50% said it would discourage them to some degree, we'll continue to allow anonymous commenting. If you want to make up a unique handle for yourself that would keep you anonymous but also allow us to distinguish you from comment thread to comment thread, that'd be great! We're trying to build an AUHoops community after all.

Enjoy voting! Let's see if we can beat last week's total of 31 votes. I'm sure that we can!

Introducing: Poll of the Week

You'll notice there is now a poll on the right side of the site. Every Wednesday I will add a new poll question. It will stay up for a week. Great fun, eh?

The inaugural question is about disabling anonymous commenting. I have LOVED the comments we've gotten in the past week, but it's kind of hard to keep the thread of the comment/arguments when everyone is anonymous. I'd like to develop a kind of AU basketball community here, and a bunch of anonymous commenters does not a community make.

Please take time to vote in the poll and expand upon your choice, if necessary, in the comments here.

Also, I'm not saying I want people's real names necessarily. Just some kind of handle that would distinguish you from other commenters.

Pro deo et patria and GO EAGLES!