Rank | Team | Reason |
---|---|---|
1 | Kansas | Postseason polls are dumb. |
2 | North Carolina | The tournament is over, there are no games left, everyone already knows the results. |
3 | Baylor | At this point, a poll is useless. |
4 | Providence | So I don't see any reason why one methodology is better than another at this point. |
5 | Duke | There are so many ways you can go with a postseason poll. |
6 | Creighton | You could treat tournament games the same as any other game, but this seems pretty dumb and can lead to weird results, |
7 | San Diego State | like the champion not being #1. |
8 | UCLA | Nobody cares about the regular season anymore, so why consider it at all? |
9 | Texas Tech | So since I have been given the opportunity to submit a pointless ballot, I am going to do it as dumbly yet sensibly as possible. |
10 | South Dakota State | Teams are ranked based on total tournament transitive point differential from the national champion. |
11 | Akron | For example, Duke lost to UNC by 4 who lost to Kansas by 3, so their score is 7. |
12 | Villanova | OT games count as a 0.5 point margin regardless of the final score. |
13 | Arkansas | The first tiebreaker is round reached. |
14 | Michigan State | The next tiebreaker (only needed to tiebreak SDSU and Akron) is number of games in the transitive loss path to the champion. |
15 | Davidson | Is this a terrible poll? Yes. Do I care? No. |
16 | Notre Dame | Have a great offseason everyone, can't wait till November when we get to do it all again. |
17 | Rutgers | |
18 | Vermont | |
19 | New Mexico State | |
20 | Houston | |
21 | Gonzaga | |
22 | St. Peter's | |
23 | Kentucky | |
24 | Michigan | |
25 | Cal State Fullerton |