Greetings from the Hotel Viking, where Big East media day is wrapping up. The Big East handed out bags designed for carrying drinks, but I used mine to carry around all the media guides I picked up. Rutgers was picked fourth in the preseason media poll, behind West Virginia, South Florida and Pitt. I don't vote (only 24 people do), but if I did, I might have considered putting the Knights ahead of Pitt. Then again, you can make a case Cincinnati and UConn, picked fifth and sixth, should be ahead of Rutgers. Here's the poll, with first-place votes in parentheses and total votes next to the team names.

1) West Virginia (22) 189

2) USF (1) 149

3) Pitt (1) 128

4) Rutgers 110

5) Cincinnati 98

6) UConn 97

7) Louisville 69

8) Syracuse 24

Teams get eight points for a first-place vote and one for a last-place vote, so if you do the math, you'll notice Syracuse was the unanimous choice to finish last.