The CBSSports BlogPoll kicks off this week, so I am ready to give my ballot. This past week was a bloodbath for ranked teams, as FOURTEEN teams that were in the AP Top-25 suffered at least one loss — SIX of the Top 10! There is going to be a lot of shuffling around, so here is my attept to make sense out of all of it.
2 Oklahoma
6 Clemson
7 Duke
10 Marquette
11 UCLA
12 Villanova
13 Memphis
14 Xavier
15 Kansas
16 Butler
17 Illinois
18 Arizona St.
19 Gonzaga
20 Washington
21 Purdue
22 Utah St.
23 Minnesota
24 Syracuse
25 Missouri
A few thoughts:
- Even though Clemson lost during the week to Florida State, I found it hard to drop them below Duke, considering they absolutely destroyed them on their own court.
- I think Villanova could be ranked higher, but I didn’t want to move them above Marquette, who I still think is a top 10 team — they just had a hiccup on the road in a BIG EAST game
- The bottom half of last weeks AP Top 25 was hit hard. 3 teams lost twice, and they were heavily penalized. Texas now has 7 losses (3 in a row), so I just had to drop them out.
- Syracuse may very well drop out of the real Top 25, but I think they still think they should stay — Even though they now have 6 losses, they did just beat a tough WV team, and lost to a surging Villanova team who probably desrves to be in the top 10.
So there goes my first ballot…comments, suggestions, and hatred is welcome.
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