Iowa State University LogoSenior_Chang's Ballot for Week 12 of 2016-17

Submitted on Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 9:25PM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Villanova University Logo Villanova
2 University of Kansas Logo Kansas
3 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga
4 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky
5 Baylor University Logo Baylor
6 University of Arizona Logo Arizona this is a huge jump this far into the season. addition of trier catapults arizona past ucla
7 University of Oregon Logo Oregon
8 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina
9 Florida State University Logo Florida State very good team. coming off a very tough stretch of 6 ranked (at the time) teams with 5 wins. benefited from home court.
10 University of California, Los Angeles Logo UCLA
11 Butler University Logo Butler
12 Creighton University Logo Creighton Loss of Watson was big, but ran into hot shooting marquette. time will tell how they do without him
13 University of Notre Dame Logo Notre Dame close loss @fsu, no change
14 University of Louisville Logo Louisville same as notre dame^
15 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia
16 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati winning with great d
17 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin
18 University of Virginia Logo Virginia
19 Saint Mary's College of California Logo Saint Mary's the way they're winning shows how good they are. In turn, shows how good Gonzaga is by dominating them
20 Kansas State University Logo Kansas State I thought for a long time what to do with K state. They had a weak non con, but have played well in a tough Big 12.
21 University of Maryland, College Park Logo Maryland they keep winning. close games, "luck", whatever you wanna call it. at some point wins means more.
22 Duke University Logo Duke
23 Purdue University Logo Purdue
24 Southern Methodist University Logo SMU new to my poll this week, i had a tough time with 24/25. many teams have an argument here
25 Xavier University Logo Xavier honorable mentions: northwestern, iowa state, uncw, illinois st