bkervick's Week 14 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UConn | -- Clear separation for top 2, resume-wise. #1 in Torvik as well post-Clingan return. |
| 2 | Purdue | -- Great win at Wisconsin and survived Northwestern at home. |
| 3 | Houston | Up 1. My 3,4,5 teams all took a bad loss and a good win and 6 lost twice. Houston's loss was the best of the group by far. |
| 4 | Kansas | Up 3. Big home win vs. Houston, up to #4 in WAB. Was a lot of distance between them and Houston coming in so I can't jump them for a home head to head win where they shot hot. |
| 5 | North Carolina | Down 2. Bad road loss and home win vs. Duke. Downward move but not so far down. |
| 6 | Tennessee | Down 2. Home loss and good road win at Kentucky. Downward move but not so far down. |
| 7 | Arizona | Up 1. Couple of yawn home wins, at least Cal by proper margin. |
| 8 | Auburn | Up 1. One buy game and one good road win. |
| 9 | Marquette | Up 2. Marquette climbs into top 10 for the first time in a while on heels of 6 game win streak, 2 road wins this week. |
| 10 | Wisconsin | Down 4. 2 loss week. Home loss to Purdue is understandable, road OT loss to Nebraska is understandable if not ideal. So only drop 4. |
| 11 | Alabama | Up 1. Georgia game was a little shaky, but bounced back with really strong margin result home vs. Miss St. |
| 12 | Illinois | Up 2. Took care of business at OSU and then snuck by Nebraska at home in OT. |
| 13 | Creighton | Down 3. Only beat DePaul by 33 and then ran into hot shooting Butler in the "Best First 38 Minutes of the Year". |
| 14 | Baylor | Up 2. Stabilized in a big way this week with 1.19 WAB added. Pretty big tier break here for me. |
| 15 | Dayton | Up 4. Recovered and won both games this week. WAB still top 10. |
| 16 | Duke | Up 1 I guess? Couple teams dropped and teams behind them also lost. This is a dead zone right now. |
| 17 | San Diego State | Up 1 I guess? Another team that lost that moves up. Utah St win was impressive at least. |
| 18 | Indiana State | Up 5. They just keep compiling wins and taking advantage of this section of the poll being dead.. |
| 19 | Utah State | Up 1 I guess? Lost at SDSU, but similar no one behind to jump. |
| 20 | South Carolina | New..2 road win week. Up to 10th in WAB. Predictive metrics up 30 in last few weeks to rankable territory. Huge |
| 21 | Iowa State | -- Only game was loss at Baylor that they almost won at buzzer. |
| 22 | Texas Tech | Down 7. Losing at TCU isn't ideal, but not horrible. Home to Cincy hurts a bit more. |
| 23 | BYU | Up 1. Only match was easy win at West Virginia. |
| 24 | Florida Atlantic | New. Win streak at 7. Survived North Texas and then another home yawner. |
| 25 | New Mexico | Down 3. Only loss was surprising home loss to Boise St where Max Rice was out of body. |
Overall Rationale
Out: Kentucky: 2 home losses and WAB is now in the 40s, predictives outside top 25. Ole Miss: Were 25th and split home games against good teams. Still on the fringe. Considered: St. Mary's (have won 15 of 16), Colorado St, Utah, Boise St