Rank | Team | Reason |
---|---|---|
1 | Michigan State | Florida is competitive. |
2 | Oklahoma | very convincing win over Nova |
3 | Kansas | monster 2nd half over oregon state |
4 | Purdue | best frontcourt in country (I think I said this about Gonzaga early in the year, but Purdue is scary) |
5 | Maryland | 3 B1G teams in top 5? The top 3 could be best in country, rivaled by the Big 12, but the rest of the conference blows |
6 | Xavier | they are good |
7 | Iowa State | Defense was poor against Iowa until Matt Thomas shut down Uthoff. Lack of depth will hurt them. Burton eligible this week will help. |
8 | Kentucky | I thought ASU was a sneaky competitive team with Hurley as coach. Solid win. |
9 | Virginia | Good win over WestVa |
10 | Duke | no change this week |
11 | North Carolina | tough loss. |
12 | Louisville | |
13 | Villanova | Shooting will pick up. Oklahoma game was bad |
14 | Providence | Won without Dunn, which is almost surprising |
15 | Arizona | |
16 | Miami (FL) | |
17 | Baylor | |
18 | West Virginia | |
19 | Butler | yeah |
20 | SMU | Unfortunate that with how talented this team is, they are ineligible for the tourney |
21 | GW | |
22 | Cincinnati | |
23 | Pitt | |
24 | South Carolina | I don't know if they're good because of weakness of schedule, but undefeated nonetheless |
25 | UCLA | So I guess they're actually good? Honorable mentions: Wichita State (revived!), Ark-LR, Colorado, |