North Carolina State University LogoClaudeLemieux's Ballot for Week 9 of 2016-17

Submitted on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 7:06AM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Baylor University Logo Baylor LW 1
2 Villanova University Logo Villanova LW 2
3 University of Kansas Logo Kansas LW 6
4 University of California, Los Angeles Logo UCLA LW 3
5 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky LW 5
6 University of Oregon Logo Oregon LW 20 - finally have some evidence to suggest they are the top team we all thought they were preseason
7 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga LW 11
8 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia LW 16 - this week's pure chaos has given me some time to reevaluate teams
9 Creighton University Logo Creighton LW 9
10 University of Virginia Logo Virginia LW 12
11 University of Louisville Logo Louisville LW 10
12 Florida State University Logo Florida State LW 22
13 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana LW 4 - 2 great wins, 2 weird losses. Maybe not a top 5 team so much, but for god knows why I still believeLW 13
14 Duke University Logo Duke LW 7
15 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina LW 8
16 Purdue University Logo Purdue LW 13
17 Xavier University Logo Xavier LW 15 - It's not so much that you moved down as Oregon, FSU and WVU moved up
18 Butler University Logo Butler LW 14 - St Johns and Temple are the most confusing teams in the country
19 University of Arizona Logo Arizona LW 17 - same as Xavier
20 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin LW 18 - same as Xavier
21 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Logo Virginia Tech LW UR
22 Saint Mary's College of California Logo Saint Mary's LW UR
23 University of Notre Dame Logo Notre Dame LW 23
24 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati LW 24
25 University of Southern California Logo USC LW 19 - loss to Oregon isn't bad, but it was a marquee moment for SoCal