michahs's Ballot for Week 12 of 2018-19
Submitted on Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 10:48PM EST
FYI: This is a provisional ballot. It does not count towards this poll's results.
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Tennessee
|
Kind of a toss up. Tenn doesn't have the best loss, and has the worst sos of the 1-loss squads.. but recency i suppose? |
| 2 |
Duke
|
hard to endlessly penalize em considering the dip in talent when they're sans reddish/jones. bench sucks. |
| 3 |
Virginia
|
+34 ADJEM in their 1 loss (131.7 ADJO - 97.7 ADJD). Makes me wonder what the highest adj efficiency in a loss is, all time. |
| 4 |
Michigan State
|
Along with UVA/Duke, only other team with top 10 offense and defense, hard to ignore. |
| 5 |
Gonzaga
|
sos starting to do it's typical yearly drop off. otherwise they look fantastic |
| 6 |
Michigan
|
has been on the downslope for about a month and a half, loss was due |
| 7 |
Virginia Tech
|
gross. additionally, they're the best of the rest. gap between vt and michigan is very large. |
| 8 |
Kentucky
|
hate to see it. potential to be much better |
| 9 |
North Carolina
|
multiple personalities. figure it out already roy. are you good or a total shit show. |
| 10 |
Buffalo
|
i'm not as high on them as others. resume was neat a couple weeks ago. now it's fading while everyone else plays real teams every week. |
| 11 |
Marquette
|
feel dirty putting them this high. they're good at home, they're mediocre at best away from home. candidate for future FSU chokefest. |
| 12 |
Maryland
|
underrated. 5 of 7 games in Feb are true road, and big game tmrw @MSU |
| 13 |
Kansas
|
not the same team. can still win big 12, but probably says more about the weakness of other big 12 teams. |
| 14 |
Auburn
|
kinda needed that kentucky game, fortunately everyone else keeps losing too. |
| 15 |
Purdue
|
underrated. extremely high sos, not that surprising they'd lose some games. |
| 16 |
Nevada
|
they suck. get off their knobs. |
| 17 |
Texas Tech
|
looking more and more overrated. lack of offensive options is crippling. |
| 18 |
Mississippi State
|
needs to get back on track. pretty good team when they aren't choking. |
| 19 |
Houston
|
decent defense, meh offense. record probably makes them look better than they are |
| 20 |
Ole Miss
|
rough loss to lsu at home. good team though. |
| 21 |
Louisville
|
very tough sos, playing well as of late. kind of scary |
| 22 |
Iowa State
|
jekyll and hyde. true road games with kansas and ole miss this week. figure it out iowa state |
| 23 |
LSU
|
decent team, quality in metrics. in the midst of an easy stretch. has a tough stretch from feb to the end of the year. |
| 24 |
Iowa
|
a number of quality wins, look great at home |
| 25 |
Villanova
|
not looking as bad - top 20 since early december. recency bias has heavily degraded their early season losses in metrics. |