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Baylor had best resume in basketball last week. I was the only voter to put Baylor at #1 last Monday; then they beat Xavier this week. |
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Win @UK jumps you up a lot early in the season |
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Beat Stanford on the road by 15 this week. |
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Big road win at Virginia. |
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They've beaten Kansas and North Carolina this year. Lone loss was on the road at a motivated in-state "little brother" by a few points. |
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Also beat Stanford by 15 this week, but it wasn't on the road. It was at home. |
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Beat 4 loss Michigan State at home by 9. |
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Lost on the road at Baylor. Road losses don't hurt you as much as home losses. |
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Road loss doesn't hurt them as much as home losses by other teams. |
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Losing at home is not good. I dropped ISU completely out of the top 25 for losing at home. |
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Lost at home. |
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18 |
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Only won by single digits this week to Purdue and Grand Canyon. |
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21 |
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Valuable road victory at ISU by 1 in OT. |
22 |
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No losses. Beat a potentially good Texas A&M squad. Won't know much about them until @Oregon at the end of December. |
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24 |
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No losses. #7 on defense. Weak SOS, but they have beaten Michigan and Syracuse. Would be much higher, but leading scorer suspended. |
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