All kinds of new polls come out each Monday and here’s a few with Pitt. New AP and ESPN/USA Today polls are out with the Panthers checking in at the seventh spot in each poll. Each has the same teams rounding out the top 10 and a very young, possibly unready North Carolina team takes over the top spot.

The Big East Bloggers Poll came out after the first real week of conference play and Pitt continues to hold onto that #1 rank. The ‘Eers are closely coming in behind us; even though Pitt got many of the 1st place votes, WVU got a few and then raked in the rest of the second place votes.

This Week’s Poll (first place votes in parenthesis):
1) Pittsburgh (16): 300 pts.
2) West Virginia (3): 274 pts.
3) Georgetown: 256 pts.
4) Notre Dame: 234 pts.
5) Connecticut: 221 pts.
6) Providence: 207 pts.
7) Syracuse: 205 pts.
8) Marquette: 181 pts.
9) DePaul: 150 pts.
10) Villanova: 144 pts.
11) Louisville: 114 pts.
12) St. John’s: 82 pts.
13) Seton Hall: 79 pts.
14) Cincinnati: 54 pts.
15) Rutgers: 45 pts.
16) South Florida: 31 pts.

Looks like we managed to make South Florida bad enough that they took over the last (and definitely least) spot.