Talons Top Coaches Poll For Fourth Straight Week
April 16, 2008 - arenafootball2 (af2) News Release
CHICAGO - The defending ArenaCup Champion Tulsa Talons have maintained the No. 1 ranking in the Week 4 Coaches Poll, the arenafootball2 (af2) league office announced today. Tulsa collected 437 of a possible 448 points and 23-of-29 first place votes in securing the top position for the fourth consecutive week. The Talons (3-0) continued their strong start to the 2008 season with a come-from-behind, 64-60, win on Saturday at Arkansas.
The Spokane Shock (3-0, 393 points, 3 first place votes) maintained their spot at No. 2 overall for the third straight week after a 55-51 road victory on Sunday against West Division and in-state rival Tri-Cities. Florida (2-0, 377 points) improved one position this week to No. 3 on the strength of a 62-47 home-opening win over South Division rival Tennessee Valley. Quad City moved up two spots from No. 6 to No. 4. The Steamwheelers (2-0, 308 points) handed No. 3 Louisville its first loss of 2008 on Friday at Freedom Hall, 39-28. Lubbock made the biggest jump of the week, improving their plot eight spots from No. 13 to No. 5 overall. The Renegades (2-0, 3 first place votes) followed up a 75-41 road win in Week 2 at Austin with an equally impressive 63-43 home victory against Oklahoma City on Saturday.
Each week during the season af2 coaches will vote for the Top 16 teams in the league by ranking them one through 16 on a ballot. Teams ranked first receive 16 points with the point value decreasing by one for each place below first, meaning a team ranked 16th would receive one point. Total points will determine the Top 16 list. In the event of a tie in total points, the team with the greater number of first-place votes will be ranked higher. The af2 Coaches Poll will be announced every Wednesday during the regular season. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own team and the poll results have no bearing on postseason qualification.
The complete Top 16 is listed below. The number in parentheses indicates the number of first place votes the team received.
WEEK 4 TOP 16
RANK TEAM PTS
1 Tulsa 437 (23)
2 Spokane 393 (3)
3 Florida 377
4 Quad City 308
5 Lubbock 302 (3)
6 Louisville 271
7 W-B/Scranton 263
8 Bossier-Shreveport 244
9 Green Bay 220
10 South Georgia 161
11 Corpus Christi 158
12 Rio Grande Valley 153
13 Amarillo 105
14 Peoria 102
15 Central Valley 94
16 Manchester 93
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