Rank | Team | Reason |
---|---|---|
1 | Villanova | Easy choice (only one of the poll tbh) |
2 | Baylor | |
3 | Kansas | Feels weird putting them here but all the giants fell last week |
4 | Gonzaga | I'm high on them, think they'll lose no more than twice |
5 | UCLA | One-loss teams exceedingly rare, and Oregon is very tough |
6 | Louisville | Has some great wins and no shame in losing to Virginia and Baylor |
7 | Kentucky | |
8 | West Virginia | Beat UVA on the road |
9 | Oregon | Completely different team from start of year, dominated solid USC team and beat UCLA |
10 | Duke | Grayson needs to sort things out |
11 | Creighton | Not as good as Villanova but still real good |
12 | Florida State | Bacon was... sizzling on Saturday. He's a stud and they've got a nice interior |
13 | Arizona | Like Oregon they struggled early but figured it out. When Trier comes back they'll be a force |
14 | Virginia | They're quite good but have not been as dominant at home as I hoped |
15 | Wisconsin | Solid team, they'll get better as the year goes on like always |
16 | Virginia Tech | Beat Duke by 14, pretty self-explanatory |
17 | Xavier | Scare against Georgetown but have mostly bounced back from losses |
18 | North Carolina | Georgia Tech is really bad |
19 | Saint Mary's | Still just the one loss |
20 | Florida | No bad losses, solid team |
21 | Purdue | Minnesota is for real but disapointing to lose at home |
22 | Butler | St. John's? |
23 | Cincinnati | Cincinnati is gonna stay in this fringe top 25 tier for a while I feel |
24 | Minnesota | |
25 | Indiana | Still beat Kansas and UNC. Honorable mentions to Miami, Notre Dame, USC |