Monday, August 22, 2011

2011 Sunflower League Preseason Coaches Poll

Olathe North once again
tops the list in the prese-
ason coaches poll.
The Sunflower League coaches have weighed in, and for the third consecutive year Olathe North is the preseason favorite in the coaches poll. 

The Eagles received 111 points overall, including five first place votes.  They finished 11 points ahead of the number two team, Olathe East, who received 100 points and two first place votes.

Olathe South received three first place votes, and tied with SM West for third place with 95 points.  SM West notched one first place vote, as did Lawrence, who tied SM East for fifth overall in the voting.

Free State beat out SM Northwest by four points for seventh place, and those two were followed by Olathe Northwest, SM North, SM South and Leavenworth, respectively.

Team rankings, with first place votes in parenthesis, and point totals based on voter rankings, are listed below.


2011 Sunflower League Preseason Coaches Poll

1. Olathe North (5) 111
2. Olathe East (2) 100
3t. Olathe South (3) 95
3t. SM West (1) 95
5t. SM East 85
5t. Lawrence (1) 85
7. Lawrence Free State 61
8. SM Northwest 57
9. Olathe Northwest 39
10. SM North 26
11. SM South 22
12. Leavenworth 18

Perhaps the most obvious point of note to me is the indecisiveness about the league's top team, even amongst the SL coaches themselves.  Five different schools received first place votes, which is the same as last year when we had five different schools claiming first place votes in the preseason poll as well.