More on the AP hoops poll

The wonderful thing about the AP writers poll, or the bad part if you don’t like being held accountable for your vote, is that each ballot is made public.

So while I’d love to sit here and break down the coaches’ poll, and find out which coach gave South Carolina its lone vote, I can’t.

I can, however, tell you that seven voters in the AP poll put South Carolina in their top 25. And I can tell you that all but two of them are based in SEC country. (Thanks as always to Pollspeak.com for the information.)

The voter showing USC the most love was Cory Curtis of WKRN-TV in Nashville. He had South Carolina No. 17, five spots higher than any other voter.

In fact, four different people had South Carolina at No. 22 on their ballot, including The State’s own Ron Morris. The others were The Louisville Courier-Journal’s Rick Bozich (who knows Gamecock coach Darrin Horn very well), Dan Wolken of The Memphis Commercial-Appeal and Dave Jones of the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa.

The other South Carolina-based writer voting this year, Steven Bradley of The Journal in Williamston, had South Carolina at No. 24. And the Gamecocks came in at No. 25 on the ballot of The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Joe Juliano.