Equivalent-Yard3824's Week 13 Ballot

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Auburn	(+0) Proved it without Broome, but no shame in needing every bit of him against another top 10 team
2	Duke	(+0) Moved to a NCAA Tourney-bound best 6-0 on the road by passing a tough test @ Wake, only 3-4 more true contests for this team before the real deal.
3	Iowa State	(+0) Does Jones stay in the starting lineup when Momcilovic is back? He provides such an offensive boost and KP has him now as #8 in his KPPOY, good problems to have, but could mess with chemistry.
4	Alabama	(+0) With how good Vandy is playing, walloping them this week is as impressive a win as any.
5	Florida	(+0) Considering how often this team is up 20+ and how they failed their first two conference 'clutch' moments, fighting for the win on the road against SC is going to help this team come March
6	Houston	(+0) What a way to get that first quad win, on the road in Phog with one of the most unlikely comebacks twice...
7	Tennessee	(+1) I'm less and less confident Zeigler is a guy I want to bet on come March, but a credit to this team for taking the #1 to the wire in their home
8	Michigan State	(+2) For as good as the record is for this team, I'm still going to point out that a team that can't hit threes isn't going to win in March.
9	Kansas	(+2) As much as the late game collapses hurt, the fact is they had a top 5ish team on the ropes twice.
10	Kentucky	(-3) The defense continues to get worse and worse, Torvik has them as the 160th ranked D filtering for just January. Vandy was able to get whatever they wanted all game.
11	Purdue	(-2) It's important to see a team repond to a bad loss, but I wasn't expecting that sort of response... my goodness
12	Marquette	(+0) Speaking of just January, Marquette is barely a bubble team in efficiency throughout the past month falling down to 44th in efficiency, they're looking more and more like pretenders
13	Texas A&M	(+1) It's great to be able to rebound every single miss, but eventually their lack of shot making is going to catch up to them
14	Texas Tech	(+4) After pushing ISU to OT and handling every other test, I'm curious how they hang with Houston on the road, especially with the size mismatch
15	Louisville	(+7) Wake's defense should be an interesting test for one of the hottest offenses in all of college basketball
16	Memphis	(+8) It's a different challenge than the grind of the SEC, but I imagine it's harder than we think to keep your drive and energy when you're playing a cakewalk schedule, one blip so far, hope that's i
17	Mississippi State	(-4) 1/3rd of con play done and SEC tiers are forming more clearly, and it's clear that Miss st is closer to Tier 3 than challenging Tier 1
18	Clemson	(+7) Their resume can only improve so much in ACC play, but they're going to be one of the most dangerous Rd32 opponents for whichever Top 4 seed gets them.
19	Illinois	(-4) Not surprised to see this young team stumbling a bit, they have the talent to compete with MSU and Purdue, but might be too up and down to do it consistently.
20	Oregon	(-3) Oregon's resume is the most baffling to me in all of cbb, elite wins, but I'm still not convinced by the numbers or eye test that they're really any good.
21	Wisconsin	(-1) Wisconsin's brand of basketball allows them to meticulously destroy lesser teams, but I don't think it can get them to match the talent of the elite teams
22	Missouri	(+7) This teams depth (8th most bench minutes in cbb) gives them an edge in slugfests with better teams
23	Ole Miss	(-7) Three straight losses and the schedule doesn't get much easier from here, just 3-5 against top 50 opponents, we might be looking at a fraud.
24	Vanderbilt	(+13) Time to see if they can get their magic to work outside the confines of Nashville, road trips at OU and Florida will be major tests
25	Creighton	(+10) Creighton has easily been the best BE school in conference play and get a rematch against Marquette in two weeks to truly prove it.

Overall Rationale

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