University of Notre Dame LogoESPbeN's Ballot for Week 4 of 2016-17

Submitted on Monday, November 28, 2016 at 1:46AM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Villanova University Logo Villanova Swtiched 1 and 2. Honestly just eye test.
2 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky Not much separates them. The experience of Nova gives a slight edge.
3 Xavier University Logo Xavier
4 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina
5 University of Virginia Logo Virginia
6 University of Kansas Logo Kansas Does Indiana's loss hurt the Jayhawks? Only enough to drop twice in my rankings.
7 University of California, Los Angeles Logo UCLA
8 Duke University Logo Duke
9 Saint Mary's College of California Logo Saint Mary's
10 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga I feel weird when teams from the same conference end up next to each other.
11 Creighton University Logo Creighton Big East Master Race
12 Baylor University Logo Baylor Has beaten Oregon, VCU, and Louisville.
13 Purdue University Logo Purdue
14 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin
15 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana Still beat Kansas. The UNC game is huge.
16 Butler University Logo Butler
17 University of South Carolina Logo South Carolina Hype Train 2k16 Version
18 University of Rhode Island Logo URI
19 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati
20 University of Arizona Logo Arizona
21 University of Florida Logo Florida
22 University of Notre Dame Logo Notre Dame Call me out all you want. This is an incredible offense. Looking forward to the test against Iowa.
23 University of Maryland, College Park Logo Maryland
24 Syracuse University Logo Syracuse They usually have one early loss and bounce back. This is still a scary team.
25 University of Utah Logo Utah Random note: Temple is an intriguing team. Not enough to rank, with two bad losses, but they beat FSU and WVU back to back.