Iowa State University Logobrvheart's Ballot for Week 5 of 2016-17

Submitted on Monday, December 5, 2016 at 2:58AM EST
RankTeamReason
1 Baylor University Logo Baylor Baylor had best resume in basketball last week. I was the only voter to put Baylor at #1 last Monday; then they beat Xavier this week.
2 Villanova University Logo Villanova
3 University of California, Los Angeles Logo UCLA Win @UK jumps you up a lot early in the season
4 Saint Mary's College of California Logo Saint Mary's Beat Stanford on the road by 15 this week.
5 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia Big road win at Virginia.
6 Creighton University Logo Creighton
7 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga
8 Butler University Logo Butler
9 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana They've beaten Kansas and North Carolina this year. Lone loss was on the road at a motivated in-state "little brother" by a few points.
10 University of Kansas Logo Kansas Also beat Stanford by 15 this week, but it wasn't on the road. It was at home.
11 University of Notre Dame Logo Notre Dame
12 Duke University Logo Duke Beat 4 loss Michigan State at home by 9.
13 Xavier University Logo Xavier Lost on the road at Baylor. Road losses don't hurt you as much as home losses.
14 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina Road loss doesn't hurt them as much as home losses by other teams.
15 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky Losing at home is not good. I dropped ISU completely out of the top 25 for losing at home.
16 University of Virginia Logo Virginia Lost at home.
17 University of Florida Logo Florida
18 University of Louisville Logo Louisville Only won by single digits this week to Purdue and Grand Canyon.
19 Ohio State University Logo Ohio State
20 Florida State University Logo Florida State
21 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati Valuable road victory at ISU by 1 in OT.
22 University of Southern California Logo USC No losses. Beat a potentially good Texas A&M squad. Won't know much about them until @Oregon at the end of December.
23 Texas Christian University Logo TCU
24 University of South Carolina Logo South Carolina No losses. #7 on defense. Weak SOS, but they have beaten Michigan and Syracuse. Would be much higher, but leading scorer suspended.
25 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Logo Virginia Tech