bkervick's Week 3 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auburn | -- |
| 2 | Kansas | Up 2. |
| 3 | UConn | Up 2. Le Moyne was better play and a better result. |
| 4 | Gonzaga | Up 3. Rebounded well with their bludgeoning of pretty good UMass Lowell. |
| 5 | Duke | Down 2. Poor Wofford. |
| 6 | Alabama | Down 4. The warning signs have been there, despite not that bad a loss. |
| 7 | Houston | Down 1. Still one of the best teams, but home loss so worse resume and I jumped Gonzaga up.. |
| 8 | Iowa State | -- |
| 9 | North Carolina | -- |
| 10 | Tennessee | Up 1. 3 really strong performances in a row. Feel like they should be higher, but so should everyone else above them. |
| 11 | Creighton | Up 1. Hasn't always been pretty, but job getting done. |
| 12 | Purdue | Up 1. Nice home win, obviously. |
| 13 | Marquette | Up 1. Good Q1 home win, but CMU was closer than it should have been. |
| 14 | Arizona | Down 4.Tough place to play, but a loss to a mediocre team still isn't ideal. |
| 15 | Baylor | -- 2 extremely strong margin performances this week. Baylor is back. |
| 16 | St. John's | -- One good, one okay home wins this week. |
| 17 | Indiana | -- One decent home win this week. |
| 18 | Texas A&M | -- One very good home win this week and one good home win this week. |
| 19 | Texas Tech | -- Desperate to move them up, but none of the 9 teams ahead of them in my standings lost this week. |
| 20 | Kentucky | -- Same but 10. But honestly they got some nice shooting luck in their win, though still impressive to be in the position where that mattered. |
| 21 | Cincinnati | Up 2. Impressive smashing of Nicholls. |
| 22 | Illinois | -- |
| 23 | Florida | Up 1. No coach distraction so far. |
| 24 | Arkansas | Up 1. A bit by default. |
| 25 | Mississippi State | New. Decent wins and decent power rankings. |
Overall Rationale
Out - Michigan State. The Bowling Green performance was worse than the Kansas one. Rutgers, BYU, Memphis, Nevada, Wisconsin, St. Mary's, Xavier, Pitt, Oregon, VCU considered.