/r/CollegeBasketball Poll

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Duke	LW:10 losses above them and the level of the Syracuse wins puts them here. I'd hear arguments for Baylor or Gonzaga to be here as well
2	Baylor	LW: 7 Great win at home vs Kansas, I am between them at #1 or #2 based on how my poll is shaking ot
3	Gonzaga	LW:1 Not a bad loss vs Saint Marys but I need to drop them..right? I have them here but could change to be 2 or decide they are still #1
4	Kansas	LW: 3 Loss at Baylor is not going to be a punishment for them, they'll only slide 1 place
5	Wisconsin	LW: 11 All the loses ahead of them and a solid week of wins had them at #6 for me but their H2H win vs Purdue needs to be considered as well
6	Purdue	LW:4 Not going to punish them too much for a loss at MSU. I had them at 5 but H2H loss vs Wisconsin slots them behind. Chance to avenge
7	Providence	LW:12 two solid wins and all the losses has them climb up, I cannot put them top 5 so they'll slot at 6 behind a top 5 talent team
8	Arkansas	LW:16 It gets tough here, metrics say they are the 5th best SEC team but they've beaten everyone ahead of them H2H, So here we are for now
9	Kentucky	LW:5 Loss on the road to Arkansas is fine, considered putting them at 8 or 10 but Arkansas H2H earns it for them, so kentucky drops 1 more
10	Arizona	LW:2 The toughest team for me this week, loss at Colorado is the worst one of all teams, cant stay top 5 and others have earned move up
11	Auburn	LW: 8 From last weeks ranking slight slide down, Loss @Tenn not bad but don't have anywhere else to put them
12	Villanova	LW 9 Loss to UConn not bad considering they were in conrol late, they will slide a few. Missed opportunity to vault up into top 6
13	Tennessee	LW: 17, strong win vs Auburn should vault them higher but I cannot rank them ahead of Villanova with that H2H Loss vs Nova
14	Texas Tech	LW: 6 2nd worst loss of the wk, wanted to keep them ahead of Tenn due to H2H but Tenns win outweighed it. No other team had that lvl of loss
15	UConn	LW: 23 great win vs Nova, moves them up with losses in the middle by UCLA, Illinois, Texas
16	Saint Mary's	This is where the explanations will stop. I had to explain how I got my top 15 with how bad of a week this was
17	Houston
18	Illinois
19	$University of Texas at Austin Logo$ Texas
20	UCLA
21	Murray State
22	USC
23	Colorado State
24	Iowa
25	Ohio State	Others considered: Wake Forest, MSU, Alabama, Boise State, Notre Dame

themidnightmamba's Ballot for Week 17 of 2021-22