University of California, Los Angeles Logometjetnet's Ballot for Week 9 of 2016-17

Submitted on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 12:18AM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Villanova University Logo Villanova Easy choice (only one of the poll tbh)
2 Baylor University Logo Baylor
3 University of Kansas Logo Kansas Feels weird putting them here but all the giants fell last week
4 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga I'm high on them, think they'll lose no more than twice
5 University of California, Los Angeles Logo UCLA One-loss teams exceedingly rare, and Oregon is very tough
6 University of Louisville Logo Louisville Has some great wins and no shame in losing to Virginia and Baylor
7 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky
8 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia Beat UVA on the road
9 University of Oregon Logo Oregon Completely different team from start of year, dominated solid USC team and beat UCLA
10 Duke University Logo Duke Grayson needs to sort things out
11 Creighton University Logo Creighton Not as good as Villanova but still real good
12 Florida State University Logo Florida State Bacon was... sizzling on Saturday. He's a stud and they've got a nice interior
13 University of Arizona Logo Arizona Like Oregon they struggled early but figured it out. When Trier comes back they'll be a force
14 University of Virginia Logo Virginia They're quite good but have not been as dominant at home as I hoped
15 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin Solid team, they'll get better as the year goes on like always
16 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Logo Virginia Tech Beat Duke by 14, pretty self-explanatory
17 Xavier University Logo Xavier Scare against Georgetown but have mostly bounced back from losses
18 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina Georgia Tech is really bad
19 Saint Mary's College of California Logo Saint Mary's Still just the one loss
20 University of Florida Logo Florida No bad losses, solid team
21 Purdue University Logo Purdue Minnesota is for real but disapointing to lose at home
22 Butler University Logo Butler St. John's?
23 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati Cincinnati is gonna stay in this fringe top 25 tier for a while I feel
24 University of Minnesota Logo Minnesota
25 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana Still beat Kansas and UNC. Honorable mentions to Miami, Notre Dame, USC