/r/CollegeBasketball Poll

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Virginia	tier 1A
2	Gonzaga
3	Duke
4	Kentucky	tier 1B
5	Michigan State
6	North Carolina
7	Tennessee
8	Michigan
9	Houston	Tier 2a
10	Marquette
11	Purdue	Those wins were pretty ugly, but they got the job done on the road and several teams above them had worse weeks
12	LSU	Beating Tennessee at home without waters is great, but a loss at home to florida is an ugly loss. Need more consistency
13	Texas Tech	Kenpom loves you, but you still are only 5-5 in Q1 and your Q1 wins are not great quality
14	Kansas	tier 2b Still have a great SOS keeping them up with 7 losses, but their true road record is egregious and their best wins came in november
15	Maryland	big win @iowa this week
16	Kansas State
17	Florida State
18	Wisconsin
19	Buffalo	tier 3 I view all these mid majors as very close now.
20	Wofford	have roughly the same quality of Q1 and Q2 wins as UB, but have an extra loss and a more Q4 heavy schedule. Better quality losses though
21	Nevada	Their resume is Buffalo's, minus the loss to marquette, plus a much uglier Q3 loss, minus 2 Q1 wins, plus 4 Q2 wins. Could go either way
22	Cincinnati
23	Virginia Tech	No bad losses, but at some point you have to look at that 3-6 in Q1 and drop them.
24	Mississippi State	Their blind resume looks great (8 Q1 wins), but nearly every Q1 win is low end and Auburn and St Mary's are overvalued by metrics
25	Iowa	tier 4 Losing at home vs MD isn't great. Getting bailed out by Bohannon at home against teams like indiana is a bad sign

oncearunner's Ballot for Week 17 of 2018-19