Iowa State University Logobrvheart's Ballot for Week 10 of 2018-19

Submitted on Monday, January 7, 2019 at 2:34AM EST
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1 University of Virginia Logo Virginia Best resume in the country. Duke has a loss, how people are ranking them higher than VA has me dumbfounded.
2 University of Michigan Logo Michigan
3 University of Tennessee Logo Tennessee
4 Duke University Logo Duke
5 University of Houston Logo Houston
6 Michigan State University Logo Michigan State Great win @OSU. It's very surprising that they lost to Louisville, but I'm just assuming it was an outlier.
7 Texas Tech University Logo Texas Tech Both wins this week were close to unranked teams.
8 Iowa State University Logo Iowa State Huge win against a universally ranked top 5 team. Both losses happened when they were missing four players.
9 North Carolina State University Logo NC State Needs to beat UNC at home this week. This might be the most important game in terms of rankings that happens this week.
10 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga Any loss in Gonzaga's remaining schedule will drop them significantly in my rankings. Their toughest remaining game with be @ SF this week.
11 Mississippi State University Logo Mississippi State We won't really know how good this team is until toward the end of January, but with only one close loss to the team that beat Kansas...11th
12 University of Kansas Logo Kansas Normally road losses shouldn't hurt you too badly, but a 20 point loss to an AP unranked team probably shouldn't happen.
13 St. John's University Logo St. John's Other than the game against a good Seton Hall team where the refs screwed them out of a win, they've been flawless. This week @ Villanova.
14 Florida State University Logo Florida State They don't get hurt too badly by a road loss to the best team in the country.
15 Marquette University Logo Marquette 20 point loss to St. Johns. St John's is a great team, but you can't lose by 20 to anyone.
16 Auburn University Logo Auburn Barely beat Murray St, went to OT against UAB. Lost to both of the good teams they've faced. Best win by far is unranked Arizona.
17 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Logo Virginia Tech They have beaten nobody and lost to Penn St. We won't know how good they are until Jan 15 @ Virginia.
18 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina Good road win against unranked Pitt. After NC State this week they don't have a tough road game until late February.
19 University of Nevada, Reno Logo Nevada You can't lose to bad teams by 30 if you want to be a top 10 team.
20 University at Buffalo Logo Buffalo
21 University of Oklahoma Logo Oklahoma
22 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky
23 University of Iowa Logo Iowa
24 Ohio State University Logo Ohio State
25 Texas Christian University Logo TCU