Stepkeyt's Week 5 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auburn | (1) Broome is a baller |
| 2 | Kansas | (3) Kicking there way up to 2 |
| 3 | Tennessee | (4) Pure Dominance so far |
| 4 | Kentucky | (6) Pope is the man |
| 5 | Iowa State | (8) Yay they played someone! |
| 6 | Gonzaga | (2) Country Roads took them home with a loss |
| 7 | Marquette | (12) BE down, Marquette Up |
| 8 | Oregon | (NR) Portland who? |
| 9 | Alabama | (10) Whats a goaltend? |
| 10 | Cincinnati | (13) Metrics Good, Opponents Bad. |
| 11 | Purdue | (14) Where them 7' Footers at? |
| 12 | Florida | (16) Crushing some decent not great teams. |
| 13 | Wisconsin | (15) They good |
| 14 | Pitt | (19) Learned from last years poor Non-conf sos |
| 15 | Memphis | (NR) Broke UConn |
| 16 | Duke | (7) A road win is nice but Arizona is looking worse as the weeks go on and they have struggled to close games out. |
| 17 | Houston | (5) Metrics are great but can't close games. Only solid win is ND. |
| 18 | Illinois | (18) They love beating teams from Arkansas. |
| 19 | Michigan State | (NR) Is this team legit Idk yet? |
| 20 | North Carolina | (11) 1st half=300 Ken pom, 2 half=Best team in the country |
| 21 | Oklahoma | (NR) Had the worst SOS coming into the week and won some decent games |
| 22 | Michigan | (NR) Danny Wolf is a Bad man |
| 23 | Texas A&M | (20) Is this team Legit find on next time. |
| 24 | UCLA | (NR) So lost here I guess |
| 25 | Dayton | (NR) So close to winning all 3 games in Maui. Also I miss the X team I saw that played Dayton in the scrimmage. |
Overall Rationale
Dropped Out: #9 UConn, #17 Indiana, #21 Ohio State, #22 St. John's, #23 Texas, #24 Xavier, #25 Baylor. UConn is pretty simple no good wins and don't look good so far and metrics back this up. Indiana looked horrible in Atlantis, Ohio State is like a 26-30 team right now in my mind just in this weird limbo spot, St. John's metrics love them these final few slots are so hard, Texas Same Thing as Ohio State but with a H2H loss to them, Xavier I could write a full thing on them main thing is this supposedly good Offense looks non existent the last couple of games and the bench has been pretty bad minus a few performances, Baylor is similar to UNC but with blowouts instead of close comebacks. The inter-conference challenges should help provide some good road games for some teams.