Rank | Team | Reason |
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1 | Villanova | So, I'm not sure how controversial this ballot will wind up being, and I'm a west coast voter who liked to sleep until super late. |
2 | Virginia | So instead of posting a comment in the User Poll thread trying to defend things in case people vehemently disagree with me |
3 | Purdue | I'll just use this space to sort of describe what I'm thinking at this point. |
4 | Duke | The long and short of it is that everybody's losing and it's making resume-based voting very difficult |
5 | Michigan State | So of course my inclination is to turn to KenPom, but it's doing some weird things too |
6 | Kansas | Like, as much as I love my Zags, I have a hard time believing they're the 7th-best team in the country at this moment in time |
7 | North Carolina | And same goes for Cincinnati, whose game against UCF must've pleased Tony Bennett to no end. |
8 | West Virginia | So instead I'm left sort of grasping at straws. Plus, I've been incredibly busy with my work life this season, so I haven't watched near |
9 | Ohio State | the amount of games I'd like to. All that leads to these rankings this week, where, oh shit, what is Ohio State doing here? |
10 | Oklahoma | Well, KenPom has the Buckeyes at #11, and they're undefeated in the Big 10 with wins over Sparty and Minnesota at this point |
11 | Clemson | And with everyone around them losing, they shot way up in my rankings, because why wouldn't they at this point? |
12 | Cincinnati | The power conferences are cannibalizing each other at this point, which makes this job very hard. |
13 | Texas Tech | However, I'm very confident in the top 5 I have, and that's really all anyone knows at this point anyway |
14 | Xavier | I'm sure I'll be told exactly how much of an idiot I am tomorrow morning by an upset Kentucky fan or something |
15 | Auburn | But, there's nothing to make me believe I'm inherently wrong with any of this. Unfortunately. |
16 | Wichita State | |
17 | Arizona | |
18 | Miami (FL) | |
19 | Saint Mary's | Barf. |
20 | Louisville | |
21 | Gonzaga | |
22 | Florida | |
23 | Nevada | |
24 | Creighton | |
25 | URI |