Providence College LogoKJones77's Ballot for Week 11 of 2017-18

Submitted on Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 11:34PM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Villanova University Logo Villanova no change
2 University of Virginia Logo Virginia up 5
3 University of Oklahoma Logo Oklahoma up 5; but it's a hard group to rank since WVU beat OU who beat TTU who beat WVU
4 Texas Tech University Logo Texas Tech no change; logic here: I think OU is the best of Big 12 trio, TTU just beat KU and WVU so hard to ignore, and WVU is iffy to me in spots
5 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia down 3; WVU is iffy because I still can't shake that blow out loss to TAMU and the near loss to Marist, OU is a great win though but @ home
6 Duke University Logo Duke no change
7 Purdue University Logo Purdue up 7; correction, I had them way too low last week and that's my bad
8 Michigan State University Logo Michigan State down 5; near loss to Rutgers and then a loss to Michigan to compound the Ohio State loss. The latter two are good but hot damn they're cold
9 Wichita State University Logo Wichita State down 4; correction down, not as good as teams I had them over last week and have a weaker resume thus far
10 University of Kansas Logo Kansas down 1
11 University of Arizona Logo Arizona no change
12 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga up 5; not sure if they're quite this good yet but they're definitely good enough to jump due to the losses below them
13 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky up 7; it's a tragedy they're the only ones I can justify moving up
14 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina up 4; hey they did beat Notre Dame. they may be without Farrell and Colson but survive and advance applies even now at this rate
15 Xavier University Logo Xavier down 2; Creighton is a good win but they got SPANKED by Nova
16 Auburn University Logo Auburn up 4; got to reward the winning at this point
17 Seton Hall University Logo Seton Hall down 1; got spanked by Marquette on the road but recovered nicely
18 University of Tennessee Logo Tennessee up 7; winning pays off yet again
19 Clemson University Logo Clemson no change; @NC State isn't a terrible loss, especially since they beat Miami over the weekend
20 Texas Christian University Logo TCU down 10; ok, at some point you do have to win. I want to keep overlooking these L's but let's grit one out here boys
21 Florida State University Logo Florida State down 6; second straight loss and then a 2OT win over an ok Syracuse team isn't inspiring confidence
22 Arizona State University Logo Arizona State down 10; the Pac stinks and ASU still can't be over .500 to start conference play. Uh oh
23 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati down 1; by-product of their eh conference
24 Ohio State University Logo Ohio State up 1; continuing to excel
25 University of Michigan Logo Michigan new; Michigan State keeps letting new teams in. Good close loss to Purdue is enough to break in with weak top 25 this yr. Miami (24) out