Equivalent-Yard3824's Week 5 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auburn | (+1) Dominant Maui performance earns the #1 seed. |
| 2 | Kansas | (+3) Depth concerns a thing of the past after the squeezed out a win over Duke after losing Dickinson |
| 3 | Tennessee | (+3) Easy road win over Louisville looking even better after this week's events. |
| 4 | Iowa State | (+4) After a quiet start to their schedule, went toe to toe with the best team in the country for 40 minutes and followed it up with two solid victories. |
| 5 | Marquette | (+6) Kam Jones for NPOY |
| 6 | Kentucky | (+6) This week will tell us a lot more @ Clemson and Gonzaga |
| 7 | Purdue | (+6) Road blip against Marquette the only blemish so far |
| 8 | Duke | (-1) Growing pains as the Freshman are 0-2 in final possesions vs. top programs, big test against Auburn coming |
| 9 | Gonzaga | (-5) Missing a guard scorer from being truly elite |
| 10 | Cincinnati | (+6) Lackluster competition, but currently #1 in O EFG% and #1 in D EFG% which is insane. |
| 11 | Alabama | (-1) Mark Sears is going to need to wake up at some point |
| 12 | Houston | (-9) 0-3 now in close games, still trying to find that go-to guy that can win them a game without Shead |
| 13 | Wisconsin | (+5) Neutral win over Pitt looking better and better, home win over Arizona looking more meh, but 8-0 and consistent |
| 14 | Florida | (+6) Haven't been tested, but also haven't been tested winning all 8 by 13+ |
| 15 | Baylor | (+2) Blown out in their two biggest tests but strong wins over Ark and SJU, last non-con test comes this week at UConn |
| 16 | Oregon | (+20) 4 straight Tier A wins with 2 top 25 upsets, Oregon bursts back into the national picture |
| 17 | Memphis | (+8) The shotmaking from Haggerty and Hunter in Maui was just pure hoops, I loved it |
| 18 | Pitt | (+10) One of the best true road wins of the season thus far taking down OSU in Columbus |
| 19 | North Carolina | (-8) Trailed big at the half in all four of their major games, showed fight to claw back into them all, but it's a concerning trend |
| 20 | Dayton | (+3) Really solid showing in Maui going to the buzzer against UNC and ISU before clowning a UConn team that had given up |
| 21 | Texas A&M | (-6) Quality loss to Oregon in hindsight, the offense has been ugly but this team fights hard |
| 22 | Illinois | (+11) This young team is finding it's footing and plays some really fun ball |
| 23 | Texas | (-1) Kind of a bleh resume to this point, but the defense has been really impressive to start |
| 24 | Ole Miss | (+13) Taking down BYU and losing at the buzzer to Purdue is a big win of a feast week for a previously untested Ole Miss squad |
| 25 | Michigan | (+13) Out assisted Va Tech and Xavier 34-12 in their two dominant Neutral site wins |
Overall Rationale
Next 5: Miss St, UConn, St. John's, Texas Tech, UCLA