There's an interesting poll going on over at mvcfans.com (
http://www.mvcfans.com/viewforum.php?f=2) where the readers vote on which men's basketball team will finish where. The twist is, they're doing it place by place, starting at the bottom, and eliminating the lower seeded teams with each individual poll.
For 10th place, SIU was selected by 77 voters in their poll. Drake was selected in 9th place. They're currently voting on 8th place, and ISU has a lead over Loyola with 69 people voting so far.
What makes the poll interesting to me is it (knowingly or unknowingly) uses crowdsourcing theory to pick the finishers. According to the theory, this technique should make the poll more accurate than the official MVC poll or any of the college basketball preview polls because it utilizes "the wisdom of the crowd," who, in this instance, are several dozen of the most engaged and knowledgeable fans in the league. It will be fun to see if "the crowd" knows more than the various experts.