Rank | Team | Reason |
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1 | Gonzaga | Big week for the Zags, two wins will probably lock them into #1 for a long time. |
2 | Purdue | Canada's finest, Zach Edey is having an incredible start to his sophomore season. |
3 | UCLA | |
4 | Kansas | |
5 | Houston | Another dominant defensive team, they absolutely destroyed Virginia from start to finish. |
6 | Arizona | Tommy Lloyd has a hell of a squad lead by Canada's finest, Bennedict Mathurin, and Christian Koloko is a beast as well. |
7 | Duke | |
8 | BYU | Mark Pope is a top 5 coach in the country, and I'm tired of pretending that he's not. |
9 | Alabama | |
10 | Baylor | |
11 | Seton Hall | Another team with an incredible defensive ceiling, Rhoden will need to be a consistent scorer for this squad to crack the top 10. |
12 | Kentucky | |
13 | Memphis | |
14 | St. Bonaventure | They need to get off to better starts more consistently, but that's pretty much my only complaint about the Bonnies. |
15 | Virginia Tech | |
16 | Texas | |
17 | Villanova | Very rarely is a two loss team still ranked this early in my ballot, but Nova gets a pass due to margin and quality of opponent. |
18 | Illinois | This team needs Kofi, and the only reason they're still in the top 25 is because he wasn't playing in that debacle in Milwaukee. |
19 | UConn | |
20 | Mississippi State | |
21 | Xavier | Just wait until this team gets Zach Freemantle back, they could easily be challengers in a deep and talented Big East. |
22 | Tennessee | I still think this team has a high ceiling, but that Villanova game was ugly and Josiah Jordan-James hasn't taken the step forward yet. |
23 | Indiana | I really missed watching games at Assembly Hall with 100% capacity, those fans just go wild. The Johnnies found that out this week. |
24 | Florida | |
25 | Colorado State | Next 15: Michigan, USC, Texas Tech, St. John's, FSU, Marquette, MSU, Providence, LSU, Drake, Utah State, Arkansas, WVU, UCF, Ohio State |