206-Ginge's Ballot for Week 12 of 2017-18| Rank | Team | Reason |
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| 1 |
Villanova
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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
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So instead of posting a comment in the User Poll thread trying to defend things in case people vehemently disagree with me |
| 3 |
Purdue
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I'll just use this space to sort of describe what I'm thinking at this point. |
| 4 |
Duke
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The long and short of it is that everybody's losing and it's making resume-based voting very difficult |
| 5 |
Michigan State
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So of course my inclination is to turn to KenPom, but it's doing some weird things too |
| 6 |
Kansas
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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
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And same goes for Cincinnati, whose game against UCF must've pleased Tony Bennett to no end. |
| 8 |
West Virginia
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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
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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
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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
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And with everyone around them losing, they shot way up in my rankings, because why wouldn't they at this point? |
| 12 |
Cincinnati
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The power conferences are cannibalizing each other at this point, which makes this job very hard. |
| 13 |
Texas Tech
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However, I'm very confident in the top 5 I have, and that's really all anyone knows at this point anyway |
| 14 |
Xavier
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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
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But, there's nothing to make me believe I'm inherently wrong with any of this. Unfortunately. |
| 16 |
Wichita State
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| 17 |
Arizona
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| 18 |
Miami (FL)
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| 19 |
Saint Mary's
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Barf. |
| 20 |
Louisville
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| 21 |
Gonzaga
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| 22 |
Florida
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| 23 |
Nevada
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| 24 |
Creighton
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| 25 |
URI
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