Senior_Chang's Ballot for Week 12 of 2016-17
Submitted on Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 9:25PM EST
| Rank | Team | Reason |
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| 1 |
 Villanova
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| 2 |
Kansas
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| 3 |
Gonzaga
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| 4 |
Kentucky
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| 5 |
Baylor
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| 6 |
Arizona
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this is a huge jump this far into the season. addition of trier catapults arizona past ucla |
| 7 |
Oregon
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| 8 |
North Carolina
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| 9 |
Florida State
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very good team. coming off a very tough stretch of 6 ranked (at the time) teams with 5 wins. benefited from home court. |
| 10 |
UCLA
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| 11 |
Butler
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| 12 |
Creighton
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Loss of Watson was big, but ran into hot shooting marquette. time will tell how they do without him |
| 13 |
Notre Dame
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close loss @fsu, no change |
| 14 |
Louisville
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same as notre dame^ |
| 15 |
West Virginia
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| 16 |
Cincinnati
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winning with great d |
| 17 |
Wisconsin
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| 18 |
Virginia
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| 19 |
Saint Mary's
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the way they're winning shows how good they are. In turn, shows how good Gonzaga is by dominating them |
| 20 |
Kansas State
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I thought for a long time what to do with K state. They had a weak non con, but have played well in a tough Big 12. |
| 21 |
Maryland
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they keep winning. close games, "luck", whatever you wanna call it. at some point wins means more. |
| 22 |
Duke
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| 23 |
Purdue
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| 24 |
SMU
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new to my poll this week, i had a tough time with 24/25. many teams have an argument here |
| 25 |
Xavier
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honorable mentions: northwestern, iowa state, uncw, illinois st |