1) Illinois 2) Boston College 3) North Carolina 4) Wake Forest 5) Gonzaga 6) U of the Pacific 7) Washington 8) Kansas 9) Kentucky 10) Duke 11) Michigan State 12) Arizona 13) Utah 14) Louisville 15) Syracuse 16) Villanova 17) Oklahoma State 18) Charlotte 19) Wisconsin-Madison 20) New Mexico 21) Southern Illinois 22) Wisconsin-Milwaukee 23) Oral Roberts 24) Winthrop 25) Old Dominion --------------------------------- 30) George Washington 31) Nevada 32) Holy Cross 33) Texas A&M 34) Alabama 35) Cincinnati 36) Connecticut 37) Pittsburgh 38) Texas Tech 39) UCLA 40) Florida
1- Illinois 2- BC 3- Wake 4- UNC 5- Mich State 6- Kentucky 7- OK state 8- Washington 9- Kansas 10- Duke 11- Gonzaga 12- Pacific 13- Louisville 14- Syracuse 15- Utah 16- Oklahoma 17- Arizona 18- Wisconsin 19- Southern Illinois 20- Old Dominion 21- Nova 22- Nevada 23- Cincy 24- Charlotte 25- UCONN
1. Illinois 2. North Carolina 3. Boston College 4. Wake Forest 5. Washington 6. Gonzaga 7. Kentucky 8. Duke 9. Louisville 10. Pacific 11. Michigan State 12. Kansas 13. Arizona 14. Villanova 15. Oklahoma State 16. Charlotte 17. Syracuse 18. Utah 19. Wisconsin 20. Oklahoma 21. Cincinatti 22. Southern Illinois 23. Nevada 24. Holy Cross 25. George Washington ** Edited after OK State/Kansas game.
1.Illinois 2.Boston College 3.North Carolina 4.Wake Forest 5.Kentucky 6.Oklahoma State 7.Duke 8.Washington 9.Kansas 10.Pacific 11.Louisville 12.Michigan State 13.Arizona 14.Utah 15.Gonzaga 16.Syracuse 17.Charlotte 18.Connecticut 19.Oklahoma 20.Wisconsin 21.George Washington 22.Villanova 23.Nevada 24.Old Dominion 25.Southern Illinois
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Voodoo Child:</div><div class="quote_post">1) Illinois 2) Boston College 3) North Carolina 4) Wake Forest 5) Gonzaga 6) U of the Pacific 7) Washington 8) Kentucky 9) Duke 10) Oklahoma State 11) Michigan State 12) Kansas <font size="1">(If Kansas beats OSU, I'll move them to 10 and OSU to 15. If KU loses, I'll move OSU over Duke and KU to 17.)</font> 13) Arizona 14) Utah 15) Louisville 16) Syracuse 17) Villanova 18) Charlotte 19) Wisconsin-Madison 20) New Mexico 21) Southern Illinois 22) Wisconsin-Milwaukee 23) Oral Roberts 24) Winthrop 25) Old Dominion --------------------------------- 30) George Washington 31) Nevada 32) Holy Cross 33) Texas A&M 34) Alabama 35) Cincinnati 36) Connecticut 37) Pittsburgh 38) Texas Tech 39) UCLA 40) Florida</div> Question, VC, how come you have the 'Zags jumping so far up in your rankings? I understand that they've been playing good, but have they done that much in one week to jump from 15 to 5 in your rankings? Just seems a bit odd to have that much of a jump. I just wanted to hear an explantion on that. You can easily make a case that I have Oklahoma and Connecticut too high, which I probably do. Connecticut has played pretty solid the past two weeks, same with Oklahoma. But I think I might have them too high.
1. Illinois 2. North Carolina 3. Boston College 4. Wake Forest 5. Kansas 6. Washington 7. Oklahoma State 8. Duke 9. Kentucky 10. Pacific 11. Michigan State 12. Arizona 13. Gonzaga 14. Syracuse 15. Louisville 16. Utah 17. Wisconsin 18. UConn 19. Villanova 20. Charlotte 21. Pittsburgh 22. Oklahoma 23. Alabama 24. Southern Illinois 25. George Washington
UK, wondering why Kansas is so high? They were ranked seventh overall after losing twice last week, and they lost once again this week against Oklahoma, yet, you still have them at five.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Question, VC, how come you have the 'Zags jumping so far up in your rankings? I understand that they've been playing good, but have they done that much in one week to jump from 15 to 5 in your rankings? Just seems a bit odd to have that much of a jump. I just wanted to hear an explantion on that.</div> Simple, I messed up last week. Every week I try to make my rankings better than the last week's. I start from a new slate and evaluate the sceen. I messed up with Gonzaga last week but got it right this week. The only teams that don't have four or more losses are Illinois, Pacific, Boston College, North Carolina, and Kentucky. I didn't feel like Pacific or Kentucky were playing like top 5 teams, so I kept them out. After that, it came down to teams with four losses. Wake Forest is the strongest team with four losses. Then after that it came down to either Gonzaga or Washington to me. Gonzaga just had the better schedule. They've got two wins against #3 teams (Georgia Tech and someone else) and another ranked win or two. Not to mention, they beat Washington. One of their losses also came against Illinois, so it's not like they lost to a bunch of crappy teams. I just felt that #5 was right for them. Maybe next week I'll find something else out that'll change my mind, but I like my top 5 very much right now.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting CUSA Fan:</div><div class="quote_post">UK, wondering why Kansas is so high? They were ranked seventh overall after losing twice last week, and they lost once again this week against Oklahoma, yet, you still have them at five.</div> Well, with the win over #4 Oklahoma State, I feel that they deserve to get back into the top 5. Plus, who else is top 5 material?
Well with the losses they have been producing, they aren't top five material. I don't think one win against a top ten team puts you back in the top five after losing three straight before the win.
