In 2010, Conference USA ceased issuing a preseason poll, and continues to be the only conference in America that doesn\u2019t. The decision is questionable since it deprives the member teams and the media that cover them of a noteworthy blurb leading into the season. <\/p>\n
In order to fill the void, kenpom.com commissioned an expert panel to rank the conference\u2019s twelve teams. The panel consisted of USA Today\u2019s Dan Wolken, CBSSports.com\u2019s Matt Norlander, UW-Superior head coach Paul Eberhardt, and 23 other randoms on twitter. But anyone willing to make the effort to rank C-USA teams from 1 to 12 is someone that truly cares about the conference, so don\u2019t disrespect the randoms. <\/p>\n
Memphis was the unanimous selection for the top spot, followed by Marshall, UCF, and UTEP. There\u2019s not a lot of confidence on what\u2019s going to happen in the middle of the conference. Both Tulane and Tulsa received at least one vote for each position except first. <\/p>\n
The full voting breakdown is below. Point totals were determined using 12 points for a first-place vote, 11 for second, etc. A sincere thanks to our voters. Because of you, a 2012-13 Conference USA preseason poll will forever be part of the historical college hoops record. (Voters: @TulsaHop, @goad, @otarmy, @jacoblyon, @ShayCrawford87, @BigH1313, @ToddGerkens, @ben336, @OliverBabbles, @nas38117, @thejemily, @c_pete3, @UltimateCrans, @bjpierson, @CoachEberhardt, @L0rv, @jmullen, @owlsblog, @RealDSean, @ConnorPelton128, @thejmquiston, @PKellyMLB, @scottvicker, @MattNorlander, @rhettumpress, @DanWolken)<\/p>\n
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Tot \n 1 Memphis 26 - - - - - - - - - - - 312\n 2 Marshall - 8 9 7 1 - 1 - - - - - 255\n 3 UCF - 9 5 6 3 - 1 1 1 - - - 242\n 4 UTEP - 5 3 5 7 3 - 1 2 - - - 220\n 5 So. Miss - 1 - 4 5 8 4 2 1 1 - - 184\n 6 UAB - 1 2 1 5 2 2 6 4 2 1 - 160\n 7 Houston - - 2 1 1 4 4 6 7 1 - - 150\n 8 Tulane - 1 1 1 3 5 2 1 1 4 5 2 134\n 9 Tulsa - 1 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 3 7 3 121\n10 ECU - - 1 - - 1 9 2 6 3 2 2 120\n11 SMU - - - - - 1 - 3 2 8 7 5 73\n12 Rice - - - - - 1 2 - 1 4 4 14 57\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2010, Conference USA ceased issuing a preseason poll, and continues to be the only conference in America that doesn\u2019t. The decision is questionable since it deprives the member teams and the media that cover them of a noteworthy blurb leading into the season. In order to fill the void, kenpom.com commissioned an expert panel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}