AnAnonymousS0urce's Week 3 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | Beat Gonzaga (a good team) by 19 (a lot) |
| 2 | Houston | Consistently insane margins of victory against their weaker opponents. Winning @Oregon by 10 is also pretty good but failing to match the UC Irvine margin of victory keeps them out of number 1 for now |
| 3 | Virginia | Willing to overlook the NC Central game after that performance in Vegas. |
| 4 | Maryland | SLU and Miami are pretty good, beating them by 28 and 18 on a neutral court seems hard to do. |
| 5 | Gonzaga | Hard to know just how to balance the blowout loss with the similarly strong win. |
| 6 | Iowa | Very strong win @ Seton Hall |
| 7 | Kansas | Duke win obviously strong but I couldn't ignore the weak SUU win |
| 8 | San Diego State | @ Stanford is a quality win, BYU win is ok I guess |
| 9 | Saint Mary's | North Texas by 30 is crazy on the surface but I can't give them too much credit given that UNT's entire roster had the flu |
| 10 | Baylor | UCLA game good, Virginia game bad |
| 11 | Illinois | ^ |
| 12 | Michigan State | Why are they playing basketball on a boat? |
| 13 | Indiana | Cool road win |
| 14 | Alabama | Smacking Liberty around was a pretty strong win, USA game a bit weak but I respect the road game. I wish they had a game against a real team. |
| 15 | Utah State | Crushed a trio of strong mid-majors but OT against USD is pretty bad |
| 16 | West Virginia | Power conference road win (by 35 points) |
| 17 | Memphis | Very hard team to place but the strength of schedule is respectable |
| 18 | Arizona | Beat a very good team (no bias) by 42 (unbiased). Can't wait for them to play a real team. |
| 19 | Duke | No good wins to back up the loss, but it was close enough that I won't unrank them entirely |
| 20 | Xavier | q u a l i t y l o s s |
| 21 | Sam Houston | 2 D1 games, 2 Power 6 road wins |
| 22 | Mississippi State | Beat some decent mid-majors, no bad games yet |
| 23 | UCLA | Didn't feel like I could put them much higher because 2 losses and no strong wins but the losses are close enough that I can understand leaving them a bit higher. |
| 24 | North Carolina | If they would like to be ranked higher they should consider beating teams outside the top 200 by more than 13 of 6. JMU and CofC Ws are ok but saying these results look like a top 25 team is generous. |
| 25 | Kentucky | Basically same story as UCLA but the losses are weaker. |
Overall Rationale
Trying to not do preseason bias, which worked out much better this week than last week. Still a lot of emphasis on margin of victory/loss. Generally I support rewarding quality losses but it's hard to really do that this early when there are so many undefeated/1-loss teams I would be putting them over.