Rank | Team | Reason |
---|---|---|
1 | 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 | |
3 | UCLA | Win @UK jumps you up a lot early in the season |
4 | Saint Mary's | Beat Stanford on the road by 15 this week. |
5 | West Virginia | Big road win at Virginia. |
6 | Creighton | |
7 | Gonzaga | |
8 | Butler | |
9 | 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 | Kansas | Also beat Stanford by 15 this week, but it wasn't on the road. It was at home. |
11 | Notre Dame | |
12 | Duke | Beat 4 loss Michigan State at home by 9. |
13 | Xavier | Lost on the road at Baylor. Road losses don't hurt you as much as home losses. |
14 | North Carolina | Road loss doesn't hurt them as much as home losses by other teams. |
15 | Kentucky | Losing at home is not good. I dropped ISU completely out of the top 25 for losing at home. |
16 | Virginia | Lost at home. |
17 | Florida | |
18 | Louisville | Only won by single digits this week to Purdue and Grand Canyon. |
19 | Ohio State | |
20 | Florida State | |
21 | Cincinnati | Valuable road victory at ISU by 1 in OT. |
22 | 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 | TCU | |
24 | 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 Tech |