/r/CollegeBasketball Poll

206-Ginge's Ballot for Week 13 of 2016-17

Submitted on Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 11:11PM EST

FYI: This is a provisional ballot. It does not count towards this poll's results.

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Gonzaga	The Zags are not only the last remaining unbeaten, but also #1 on KenPom by nearly 3 points. Thats more than the gap between #2 and #6
2	Baylor	Baylor continues to squeak by, but at this point I'm wondering if it's a strength more than a weakness. 10-1 against the Top 50 don't lie.
3	Kansas	If Oklahoma didn't do two weeks ago what Kansas failed to do last week, I'd be tempted to keep them at #2. Win at Kentucky was good though.
4	Villanova	A road loss in a really tough Big East isn't the resume-breaker a lot of people have made it out to be. Still in line for a 1-seed in March.
5	Louisville	All of a sudden four losses doesn't seem that bad. With six wins in the Top 50 and the second-best defense in the country, the Birds are #5.
6	Arizona	Trier is still coming off the bench, which I find interesting. Survived a small scare from UW today, and still look top-tier.
7	Kentucky	Like Duke, the talent on this team makes some of the losses more excusable in the rankings. Monk and Adebayo will be trouble in March.
8	West Virginia	Doing a bit of a yo-yo in the rankings here. Oklahoma is still a bad loss, but a win over a top 5 team can forgive a lot of things.
9	North Carolina	Speaking of bad losses, remember when Georgia Tech seemed like a bad loss? UNC will need to find ways to beat the worse ACC teams soon.
10	Virginia	A road win against Notre Dame allows them to move up despite losing to Villanova. Tony Bennett still has opponents playing at his pace.
11	Wisconsin
12	Butler	I can't really gauge these Bulldogs. They picked up some road wins, but then lost at home to Georgetown. I might have to watch a game soon.
13	UCLA	Remember when the talking heads thought UCLA might be the best team on the West Coast? Those were different times, weren't they?
14	Florida State	Their resume makes me want to rank them higher, but their showing this past week was that bad. They'll need to pick it up fast.
15	Cincinnati	Making a slightly Gonzaga-style run up the rankings by beating up on a weak conference, but they are 4-1 against the top 50.
16	Notre Dame	Again, using a different team's comment space to talk about GT: Josh Pastner has to be a lock for ACC COY at this point, right?
17	Maryland	It's going to be really fun if the turtles win the B1G while being rated significantly lower than Purdue and Wisky in computer rankings.
18	Duke	Something's gotta give at some point, right? Like in either direction. Either they crash and burn or realize their potential. We'll see soon
19	Purdue	NEBRASKETBALL is the best nickname ever, so I don't blame Purdue for being too in awe of it to win their game. (Not really, though)
20	Creighton	Even without Watson, this year they probably are one of the best 25 teams in college basketball. It's a shame, because they could be top 10.
21	Oregon	I wrote two weeks ago that I was waiting for Oregon to really face the meat of their schedule. Well, they lost to Colorado before they could
22	Saint Mary's	19-2 looks good next to your name, but their piss-poor OOC schedule left them with a single top 50 win. They /need/ to beat the Zags.
23	Oklahoma State	Don't look now, but the Cowboys have the second most efficient offense on KenPom, and they're closer to #1 than #3.
24	SMU	They're beating up on everyone in the American not named Cincinnati, but only two top 50 wins. Good thing no one else is doing well either.
25	South Carolina	The SEC at this point has given Pac-12 the honor of being the worst P5 conference in college basketball with their showing against the B12.