Stats Corner: The Terrible Basketball Preseason Poll

As the basketball regular season winds down, we are going to take our annual look at what the preseason AP poll got wrong. Also, there is a poll about which AP poll made the bigger mistake football or basketball. Here is a refresher on the bias in the AP football poll before you vote.

Unlike the football season, where it difficult or even impossible to improve your preseason ranking until the teams above you lose and multiple teams regularly go undefeated, the basketball season rarely have an undefeated team make it through the conference tournaments, much less March Madness. Therefore, basketball teams can overcome the bias in the preseason polls. But that does not give the polls a pass on…