Pac 12 media has done this in all polls (Football, MBB, WBB) for as long as I can remember. They've always expressed a grievance over West coast teams being slighted because of the time zone differences and fact the East Coast and often Central time zone media don't watch the West Coast teams and therefore undervalue them. So, the Pac 12 media often tries to compensate for this by being very protective in their voting. While I don't agree with voting that way, they probably are correct in some of their assumptions of lazy media on the other half of the country not familiarizing themselves with what's happening out West. Having said all of that, I'm not suggesting this doesn't happen in other areas of the country as well. It's not far off from what the SEC media does in football be "stacking" their ballots with SEC teams.

I'm hoping the rankings serve as fuel for the Lady Bears. I look forward to late March / early April when Baylor can quiet all the critics.