brvheart's Ballot for Week 5 of 2016-17| Rank | Team | Reason |
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| 1 |
Baylor
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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. |
| 2 |
Villanova
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| 3 |
UCLA
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Win @UK jumps you up a lot early in the season |
| 4 |
Saint Mary's
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Beat Stanford on the road by 15 this week. |
| 5 |
West Virginia
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Big road win at Virginia. |
| 6 |
Creighton
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| 7 |
Gonzaga
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| 8 |
Butler
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| 9 |
Indiana
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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. |
| 10 |
Kansas
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Also beat Stanford by 15 this week, but it wasn't on the road. It was at home. |
| 11 |
Notre Dame
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| 12 |
Duke
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Beat 4 loss Michigan State at home by 9. |
| 13 |
Xavier
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Lost on the road at Baylor. Road losses don't hurt you as much as home losses. |
| 14 |
North Carolina
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Road loss doesn't hurt them as much as home losses by other teams. |
| 15 |
Kentucky
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Losing at home is not good. I dropped ISU completely out of the top 25 for losing at home. |
| 16 |
Virginia
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Lost at home. |
| 17 |
Florida
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| 18 |
Louisville
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Only won by single digits this week to Purdue and Grand Canyon. |
| 19 |
Ohio State
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| 20 |
Florida State
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| 21 |
Cincinnati
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Valuable road victory at ISU by 1 in OT. |
| 22 |
USC
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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. |
| 23 |
TCU
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| 24 |
South Carolina
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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. |
| 25 |
Virginia Tech
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