University of Minnesota LogoSleveMcDichael4's Ballot for Week 9 of 2018-19

Submitted on Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 7:52PM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Duke University Logo Duke Not gonna try to write many explanations this week because, well, pretty much nothing happened.
2 University of Michigan Logo Michigan
3 University of Virginia Logo Virginia
4 University of Tennessee Logo Tennessee
5 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga They look excellent, have beaten the #1 team, and are probably gonna dominate the WCC for the fifty billionth straight year.
6 University of Kansas Logo Kansas The loss to Arizona State is looking worse, and I'm just more confident in Gonzaga at this point.
7 Texas Tech University Logo Texas Tech
8 Michigan State University Logo Michigan State
9 Auburn University Logo Auburn
10 Marquette University Logo Marquette
11 University of Nevada, Reno Logo Nevada Utah win was refreshing, even if they and the rest of the Pac-12 are, at best, the 7th best conference this season.
12 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina I wasn't even that hard on them after the Kentucky loss and I'm already starting to think I was too hard. Probably better than you think.
13 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Logo Virginia Tech Still a "we'll see" team going into ACC play.
14 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Logo Nebraska
15 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky Alright, turns out the Wildcats are actually good. Not declaring them elite again yet, but they're firmly ranked.
16 North Carolina State University Logo NC State
17 University of Oklahoma Logo Oklahoma
18 Mississippi State University Logo Mississippi State I took a closer look at their résumé and realized I actually like it way better than Wisconsin's or Ohio State's.
19 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin The only tough thing this week was figuring out how far to drop Wisconsin. It was initially four, then MsSt and UK jumped them. WKU is fine.
20 Ohio State University Logo Ohio State
21 Florida State University Logo Florida State Jumped Buffalo and Indiana because I'm beginning to feel better about their good wins, but I'm still not top-10 sold. I just don't get it.
22 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana
23 University at Buffalo Logo Buffalo
24 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati
25 University of Houston Logo Houston The only team I dropped was Arizona State, and I replaced them with these guys, my first team out last week.