University of Minnesota LogoSleveMcDichael4's Ballot for Week 7 of 2020-21

Submitted on Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 10:39PM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga Tier S
2 Baylor University Logo Baylor
3 Villanova University Logo Villanova Tier A
4 University of Texas at Austin Logo Texas I *knew* I was wrong to rank Kansas ahead of Texas!
5 University of Iowa Logo Iowa Tier B
6 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin Wisconsin and Iowa are effectively T-5 for me. They're both the cream of the crop in the B1G.
7 University of Houston Logo Houston Tulsa exists in a different universe. I've been here too long to dock teams a bunch for losing there.
8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Logo Illinois Illinois is still good. Thank you for playing the Illinois Lottery.
9 University of Kansas Logo Kansas
10 University of Michigan Logo Michigan I didn't even wait until the Northwestern game ended before I started putting this ballot together. That's how much of a blowout it was.
11 University of Tennessee Logo Tennessee I still trust their defensive scheming despite the loss to Alabama.
12 University of Oregon Logo Oregon Tier C
13 Creighton University Logo Creighton
14 University of Missouri Logo Missouri KenPom this week: Start at 40; get blown out by Tennessee at home, drop to 50; light up Arkansas on the road, rise back up to 41
15 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia Losing Tshiebwe hurts a lot
16 Clemson University Logo Clemson This team's challenging the 2018 squad for the title of Brownell's Best Team.
17 University of Minnesota Logo Minnesota Tier D | Would still like to see an away win but to be fair, their two road games have been against the class of the conference
18 Oklahoma State University Logo Oklahoma State The Big XII is gonna be just as brutal as the B1G.
19 Texas Tech University Logo Texas Tech
20 Rutgers University Logo Rutgers I didn't think I'd have Minnesota ahead of Rutgers when I started putting this together either. Injuries are hurting Rutgers somewhat.
21 University of Florida Logo Florida Tier E
22 Saint Louis University Logo St. Louis I don't like moving an idle team from unranked to ranked, but jeez, what is the rest of the country even doing??
23 University of Arizona Logo Arizona I'm gonna give them credit for that road win @ Wazzu, even if it took two overtimes. Wazzu isn't memeworthily bad this year.
24 University of Louisville Logo Louisville
25 University of Arkansas Logo Arkansas Fringe: Florida State, NC State, Drake, Duke, Virginia Tech, Connecticut, Ohio State, Virginia