NCAA Top 10 for this week (how would you vote?)

1. Michigan
2. Kansas
3. Indiana
4. Florida
5. Duke
6. Syracuse

And I honestly haven't seen enough of the other teams past that to rank them accurately.

If im doing rankings considering teams with all their players healthy, and considering games that were lost due to temporary injuries, it looks like this:

1 Michigan
2 Duke
3 Kansas
4 Butler
5 Indiana
6 Syracuse
7 Florida
8 Oregon

This is where it gets really hard for me. I really penalize teams for losing at home because it is so difficult for road teams to win on the road that if you want to be the best, you just cant lose at home. I know it would be a total homer pick to put NC State here, but I will anyway. But I think from a talent/potential standpoint, they are easily a top 10 team. But the depth is what kills them. You go on the road where you get fouls called on you more, in a difficult environment, and when you only play 6 guys, it really hurts. I feel that NC State is definitely more deserving than OSU, a team that has a home loss. I also feel that Michigan State is more deserving. Especially considering MSU beat Kansas and OSU lost at home. I use this more as a way to separate the two than MSU defeating OSU at home since it is so difficult to win on the road.

9 Michigan State
10 NC State


Of course if I am doing the biased, media thing, where teams dont move as fluidly and you have to move down if you lose, I would probably have something like:

1 Michigan
2 Kansas
3 Indiana
4 Florida
5 Duke
6 Syracuse
7 Oregon
8 Gonzaga
9 Arizona
10 OSU

1. michigan
2. kansas
3. florida
4. indiana
5. syracuse
6. oregon
7. louisville
8. duke
9. gonzaga
10. ohio state

quote:

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I think Florida is way too low

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yeah if he actually thinks they are at 7, then that's just no good. butler is too high as well. florida is statistically like the best team ever right now. obviously, there are gonna be some disagreements with everyone's top 10 (i may have duke too low to some people for example) but florida that low is a glaring misjudgment.

DC ranks Florida low every year.

I think both Butler and Gonzaga will do well in the tournament

I agree about an Elite 8 projection because I think the single-elimination version of the NCAAs helps out teams that are better at grinding out games (Butler, Michigan State, Louisville) rather than teams that are usually more skilled. But they have to figure out what the hell's wrong with their backcourt (Siva and Smith).

I think that's part of the reason why Gonzaga hasn't had a huge run in a while

1 Michigan
2 Kansas
3 Florida
4 Indiana
5 Duke
6 Syracuse
7 Gonzaga
8 Oregon
9 Ohio St
10 Arizona

Oregon hasnt lost a home game and has some quality home wins. Ill easily forgive them a triple OT loss to Utep on the road

They are 3-0 in ACC road games. Them and FSU (2-0) are the only ACC teams without a road loss. Makes sense since their fan support prob sucks. They arent used to having it easy at home so it isnt a big road contrast.

Anyway, they play State next Saturday at 7 in pnc, and you can bet ill be there before the doors open. Im gonna go for courtside this time.

Also, state has had a saturday or sunday home game each week this season with all midweek games being road games. Makes it really nice as a student.