Princeton University Logonewportnik's Ballot for Week 3 of 2016-17

Submitted on Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 11:35PM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Villanova University Logo Villanova Great win against Purdue, not sure when they'll be tested next
2 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky Great win against MSU. 2 cupcakes before this gets really interesting: ASU, UCLA, Valpo, UNC, Louisville, all coming up
3 Duke University Logo Duke Loss to Kansas, but still dispensed of a solid Rhode Island team without their full strength. Not 100% where to rank them w/ injury concerns
4 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina Excited to see them play Indiana, crushed a very good mid-major in Chattanooga
5 University of Kansas Logo Kansas Have them a slot ahead of Indiana despite losing the head to head. Kansas's 2 wins are very solid, beating Duke and a good Siena team
6 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana Might be under ranking them since they have one of the better wins so far against Kansas
7 University of Virginia Logo Virginia Defense looks great, but losing Nichols hurts. Also never seen a team with a 99.7% win probability on KP, which UVA has against Grambling
8 University of Louisville Logo Louisville Crushed a top-100 William & Mary squad…ODU will be another decent game before some cupcakes
9 Syracuse University Logo Syracuse Handled Monmouth pretty easily, and put up a ridiculous 1.61 PPP against Holy Cross
10 University of Arizona Logo Arizona Possibly getting Trier back is huge, and they have a good win against MSU.
11 Saint Mary's College of California Logo Saint Mary's Really impressed with their road win at Dayton. I think this is a legit top-15 team for the rest of the year
12 University of Michigan Logo Michigan Racked up some solid neutral site wins against Marquette and SMU, and get a tough road test this week at South Carolina
13 Xavier University Logo Xavier No huge wins (2 close ones actually), but they haven't played anyone below KP 140 and are 5-0, 3-0 on neutral court. Not easy
14 University of Oregon Logo Oregon Losing to Baylor away isn't a killer, but they didn't look good. Georgetown will be a good test
15 University of Florida Logo Florida Like Xavier, the wins don't blow you away, but I give them credit for scheduling and beating good mid/low major teams
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin I know they lost a road game, but I'm not really impressed with this team so far. 2 wins against sub-300 teams isn't much of a resume
17 Baylor University Logo Baylor Good wins against Oregon and FGCU with a chance to get another nice one against VCU this week
18 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga
19 University of Miami (Florida) Logo Miami (FL)
20 Creighton University Logo Creighton
21 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia
22 Purdue University Logo Purdue
23 Wichita State University Logo Wichita State
24 Butler University Logo Butler
25 Michigan State University Logo Michigan State Also considered: UCLA, Cincinnati, Rhode Island, Dayton