The State of the Mid-Majors: November 2007 Archives

I know, I know, I promised to do this last week. I didn't. I'm doing it now. Welcome to the first edition of The State of the Mid-Majors, a weekly look at the best and hottest mids in convenient top-ten form. There is no Week 1.

The State of College Basketball is a brand-new ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 341 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final Four last season. For our purposes here, it gives the world's only hype-free, non-voting, computer poll of teams in the lower 21 conferences. It's updated every hour on the hour over at Basketball State, but we'll be looking at a snapshot of the ratings every Tuesday in this space over the course of the season. SID's, get your linkers fired up!

(In case you've been living under a rock, or have just been looking at one of the Internet's 56 million other web pages, Basketball State is The Mid-Majority's sister site. Its beautiful, luscious, smart, basketball-loving red-headed sister, who demands you buy her a $25 dinner before you can come up to her apartment.)