Rank | Team | Reason |
---|---|---|
1 | Purdue | Won Maui |
2 | Marquette | Great showing in Maui, especially against Kansas |
3 | Houston | Looking strong |
4 | UConn | Same |
5 | Kansas | Still looking good overall despite a lackluster semifinal in Maui |
6 | Arizona | Good win against Michigan State to continue momentum |
7 | Tennessee | Two losses to top 5 teams should not drop the vols a lot |
8 | Gonzaga | Lost to the number 1 team and took care of business in the loser's bracket. No change in my rankings this week. |
9 | Baylor | For a moment looked vulnerable against Florida, but in the end showed they should be a top ten team |
10 | Duke | Continuing to look strong against anyone not named Arizona |
11 | Kentucky | Same but with Kansas, if we ignore the overtime win. But a win is a win, so I won't drop them for that. |
12 | Miami (FL) | We'll see what the Canes are made of with their first real test of the season this week against Kentucky |
13 | BYU | There are four undefeated dark horses that I feel should be ranked fairly high. This is one of them |
14 | Mississippi State | This is another |
15 | Colorado State | Oh hey, a third |
16 | James Madison | Number four here |
17 | Florida Atlantic | FAU and Villanova going off this week made it way harder than it should have been. |
18 | Villanova | Thanks a lot for having bad losses last week before being good this week. |
19 | North Carolina | Close loss to Villanova. This seems like a reasonable spot. |
20 | Creighton | Only loss is to a team I have highly ranked |
21 | Texas | Same |
22 | Illinois | Same |
23 | Michigan State | I'm still giving Sparty a chance. 3-3, but two of those are top ten, and the other is 16. I say they should still be ranked for now. |
24 | Texas A&M | They slot in here after losing to FAU |
25 | Ohio State | Decent wins bring them up to right behind the team they lost to earlier in the year |
Next 5: Alabama, Memphis, Oklahoma, San Diego State, UCLA. I normally don't do explanations, but this week seemed more difficult than most, so I wanted to explain a little bit of my rational if some of my rankings are seen as crazy.