fancycheesus's Week 3 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas | +2 Finally voting in Kansas over Purdue because of the kentucky win. Once Purdue wins the maui tournament, they will be back at 1 |
| 2 | Purdue | -1 See Number One |
| 3 | Arizona | -1 See number one |
| 4 | Duke | Still believe people overreacted by moving duke down too many spots for the arizona loss. |
| 5 | UConn | No slip ups yet |
| 6 | Marquette | +1 I feel like spots 6-9 are just splitting hairs whichever way. No drastic separation to me |
| 7 | Houston | -1 see number 6 |
| 8 | Tennessee | see number 6 |
| 9 | Gonzaga | see number 6 Maui is gonna reshuffle the top 10 anyway |
| 10 | Baylor | +1 Inheriting Arkansas's spot |
| 11 | Kentucky | +3 strong performance against Kansas. I wonder about consistency, but I wonder if Kentucky had 1 of their 3 bigs if they dont win that game |
| 12 | Creighton | +1 no slip ups yet |
| 13 | Texas A&M | +2 no slip ups yet. BUT Aggies are shooting 24% from 3 so far. If that doesn't improve the SEC is gonna pack the paint like they did against arkansas last year |
| 14 | Miami (FL) | +4 been taking care of bidness |
| 15 | North Carolina | +5 really just inheriting spots since i'm moving Arkansas, FAU, Texas, and Auburn down |
| 16 | Arkansas | -6 Arkansas shot 40% from 3 for the first 3 games and then came out 1-17 against a hot UNCG team that shot 40% from 3. UNCG will win their conference and be in the tournament. Not a disastrous loss |
| 17 | Texas | -1 Nobody should be letting Kenny Payne take them down to the wire |
| 18 | Auburn | -1 still riding this hot take so I can brag about being right first when Auburn starts popping off in conference play |
| 19 | Virginia | +5 inheriting a lot of spots because the bottom 5 is basically wide open between 10 teams |
| 20 | Michigan State | NR Enough time has passed that I'm putting MSU back in the top 25. |
| 21 | Memphis | NR 21-25 is an open scramble. You could rearrange these and the next 3-5 out in any order |
| 22 | Florida Atlantic | -10 There hasn't been an undefeated national champion since 1976. Not ready to unrank them yet |
| 23 | Illinois | -2 I dont want to punish Illinois for scheduling a ranked matchup, but its just how my shuffling worked |
| 24 | James Madison | +1 Survive and advance |
| 25 | USC | -6 I'm not gonna unrank them because they are a freshmen heavy class that was missing a star pg for the UCI game. |
Overall Rationale
I think this is the most irrelevant week of rankings because feast week is fixing to undo all of this. Next 5 out: Michigan, Villanova, Bama, Colorado, Miss. St.