r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbpollbot /r/CollegeBasketball • 2d ago
UserPoll: Week 10
Receiving Votes: Ole Miss 199, Nebraska 95, Wisconsin 87, Baylor 77, St. John's 56, Vanderbilt 47, Clemson 41, San Diego State 38, Texas Tech 36, Cincinnati 24, Maryland 22, Arkansas 17, Georgia 11, North Carolina 11, St. Bonaventure 10, Arizona State 6, Saint Mary's 6, Drake 5, Arizona 4, Dayton 4, Indiana 4, Creighton 3, Georgetown 2, UC San Diego 2, George Washington 1
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u/RepealMCAandDTA Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Georgetown Hoyas 2d ago
Georgetown 2
Baby steps
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u/hamilton280P West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
Not seeing it unless we are that quality of a loss
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u/Letsgomountaineers5 West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
I mean they beat the breaks off Creighton, currently 3-0 in the Big East. The early loss to ND when they were gelling I don’t think should be held too much against them in what is essentially a power ranking.
And we are a Quad 1 team lol, we are a quality loss.
Sorber playing like an All American certainly helps
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u/hamilton280P West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
Big East only has like 2 contending teams. And Georgetown had a weak non conf like DePaul who started 7-0. I’m just saying, it took us beating Kansas in AF to even get ranked after we already beat two ranked teams this year and lost to a couple top 50 teams.
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u/Letsgomountaineers5 West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
That’s just because of preseason expectations still carrying weight, just like Georgetown.
They probably aren’t a top 25 team but someone saying “hey beating Creighton by nearly 30 and keeping the WVU game within 2 possessions like the entire game, plus getting a Big East road win is worth a shout”
Edit: plus a road win in the Carrier Dome
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u/hamilton280P West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
Yeah I get it. There’s just so many good teams so far. Especially in the SEC you could possibly rank the whole SEC and that would leave just 9 spots
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
https://www.cbbpoll.net/ballots/10/659c035f51562841665701e3
This Tuesday looks like it's going to be absolute fire.
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u/witchy12 Michigan State Spartans • Northe… 2d ago
Feel like Oregon should have dropped a little more from getting hosed at home by 32
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
Their five Q1 wins is tied for second best in the country, only behind Auburn. Their WAB ranking is still top 4.
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u/witchy12 Michigan State Spartans • Northe… 2d ago
True, but a 32 point home loss is not good, regardless of their resume.
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
Sure, and it's why I dropped them from my previous rank of 8th.
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u/jack3moto Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
You didn’t watch the game if that’s how you feel. Illinois basically was unstoppable. Oregon didn’t play bad, they missed some open shots early in the second half and Illinois made everything. Once it got out of hand Oregon tried to press to cut a few possessions and it lead to Illinois getting a bunch of easy baskets.
It’s way more of an outlier performance than any sign that Oregon isn’t a top 20 team.
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers 2d ago
WVU ranked!
...you know, it does make me wonder how much higher the Mountaineers would have been they not stepped off the gas as much in the second half against the Jayhawks...
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u/Letsgomountaineers5 West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
Did the same against Oklahoma State. 46-17 at half or something like that. Only ended up scoring 69 and winning by 19.
Its a depth issue, I think Devries is just eating up the shot clock and limiting possessions to limit exertion when he have a game in hand.
The Kansas game we had a 7 man rotation and that was like the only 7 we could actually play outside of basically walk ons. We played Haris Elezovic who has maybe 15 minutes of game time for like 9 minutes in that Kansas game because we literally had 1 healthy 5. And he proceeded to miss a wide open layup and get abused down low but he had to stay in just for rest.
At the point where we can’t afford Small to leave the court so we sub in 2 other point guards just to play him off ball in the corner and that’s his break lol.
Devries is the fucking real deal. This isn’t an overly talented roster, especially at this point with 3 of our “guys” from the offseason all hurt
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u/bonerbasketball West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
WVU has the resume of a top 15 team. Neutral site wins over Gonzaga and arizona, away win at Kansas and losses are on the road at pitt (although it was a total blowout) and neutral site Louisville. WVU was just so out of everyone’s radar to begin the season they have struggled to get real credit
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u/Ih8Hondas Missouri Tigers • New Mexico Lobos 2d ago
Makes you wonder if Mizzou would be ranked if they hadn't decided to stop playing basketball for a good portion of the second half against Kansas.
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u/ALStark69 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida State S… 2d ago
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
Only thing that has me confused is Ole Miss. Their top three wins are Louisville, BYU, and Georgia. Nothing bad about those three teams, but when they're the only quality wins on the resume so far, I don't see how that's a top 22 team.
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u/ALStark69 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida State S… 2d ago
That was more of a “uhhh who do I rank” they beat a Georgia team who I had ranked. They may be a bit high but for now I’ll rank them”
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u/witchy12 Michigan State Spartans • Northe… 2d ago
Pretty high on us IMO but I'll take it
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u/sociapathictendences Utah State Aggies 2d ago
Utah State is too high. Can’t lose at home to UCSD. Or play Wyoming and Fresno State that close at home.
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u/RonsDarlings Illinois Fighting Illini 2d ago
Why are you so low on us fuck boi?
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u/ALStark69 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida State S… 2d ago
Flair up
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u/RonsDarlings Illinois Fighting Illini 2d ago
Always been flaired as far as I know, Illinois
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u/ALStark69 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida State S… 2d ago
First of all, real classy calling me “fuck boi”
Second, you jumped from unranked to 16. My highest riser of the week. What are you talking about?
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u/RonsDarlings Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago
You literally said yell at me….
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u/ALStark69 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida State S… 1d ago
Not name call
Didn’t read as a joke, my bad
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u/BacoNATEor Pittsburgh Panthers 2d ago
Low on us is interesting. This Pitt team is the most complete team I’ve seen since Jamie. We’ve been playing top 25 basketball without one of our best players (Damian Dunn) and the metrics love us.
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u/ALStark69 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida State S… 2d ago
I mean y’all are 26 so it’s not crazy low
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u/ALStark69 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida State S… 2d ago
Seems like the top 5 is Auburn/Tennessee, Iowa State, Duke, Bama. Everywhere else isn’t so clear
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u/Gianmelo Marquette Golden Eagles 2d ago
I guess MU and ISU are going to have to carry the entire midwest on their backs
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u/LaconianSalvage Iowa State Cyclones 2d ago
I mean we’re definitely leading the pack, but there are several other midwestern teams in this ranking. Midwestern basketball is still strong!
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u/Di9ForLife Kentucky Wildcats • North Carolina T… 2d ago
https://www.cbbpoll.net/ballots/10/677a073595207df9da80acef
Things are starting to look fairly clear in the top 12 or so now
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u/jensonalexanderlyons 2d ago
13 Mississippi State is just beautiful, that is a great basketball team, and against UK should be a blockbuster
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u/hamilton280P West Virginia Mountaineers 2d ago
Interesting your one loss is Butler who have lost 7 straight
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u/mjmiller2023 Mississippi State Bulldogs 2d ago
We always have a bad loss. Usually it's against a SWAC team. I'll take Butler being our bad loss any day of the week.
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u/Euscorpious Houston Cougars 2d ago
OOTL: how does one participate in this poll?
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
They accept applications at the beginning of the Season. If you miss that, you can still vote with a provisional ballot in hopes of getting officially picked up next year.
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u/Equivalent-Yard3824 Boston University Terriers 2d ago
Was travelling this week, so no write up, but here's my poll: https://www.cbbpoll.net/ballots/10/677be9fd95207df9da83a231
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u/Equivalent-Yard3824 Boston University Terriers 2d ago
Team's I'm +-5 from consensus:
* Memphis (-6) - while the highs of Memphis are undeniable, I wanted to use the end of the poll to reward a few other teams that have impressed me of late, still had them in my next 5
* Pitt (+5) - With only 5 meaningful games and a 3-2 record in those games it's a bit hard to tell for Pitt, but they pass the eye test for me, I wouldn't put them much higher than this though.Wow that's it, definitely feels like everything is sort of converging and we're starting to have a bit clearer picture of the top 20 or so, leaving less room for massive differences.
I guess I'll comment on leaving Florida at 6 - I'm not in the business of faulting teams who performed as expected, road game against a top 8 opponent and it came down to the final minutes. I don't think Marquette did enough to pass them, and Kentucky's breadth of work isn't as good even with the H2H.
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
Memphis has the same Q1 record as Duke, and 6 more Q2 wins as the Blue Devils. Yes, their Q3 home loss should ding them, but to say they're not a top 25 team is a bit punitive.
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u/Equivalent-Yard3824 Boston University Terriers 2d ago
100% agree with you, and I actually have been ranking them pretty consistently, I had them in the rankings pre-Maui and very high afterwards. Mostly just poll inertia and my want to recognize some other teams who had big weeks that kept them off, should correct itself shortly.
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u/jmac3560 Memphis Tigers 2d ago
I'm so confused by that logic though, and then still including Ole Miss. We're less than 10 days removed from Memphis beating Ole miss by 20. Has ole miss really impressed you more than Memphis lately?
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u/Equivalent-Yard3824 Boston University Terriers 2d ago
Yeah honestly, looking harder at it, probably should've completely swapped Ole Miss and Memphis at minimum. Will correct it moving forward.
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u/PureQuill Arkansas Razorbacks 2d ago
I knew this was gonna happen but I’m still not over it…
DVH please save my soul 🙏
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u/bh6891 Wichita State Shockers 2d ago
West Virginia earned their ranking, very impressive work from DeVries. I'm not sure if I buy Mississippi State as a top 15 team, but the SEC will give them plenty of opportunities to really prove themselves.
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u/IBumpFuzz Auburn Tigers 2d ago
Both NET and KenPom think Miss state is right around 15. I’d say it’s fair now. I don’t see them losing at all in the Hump
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u/Life-Veterinarian699 Nebraska Cornhuskers • NIT 2d ago
https://www.cbbpoll.net/ballots/10/677b22e395207df9da823c14
Yes, I'm high on Houston
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
It's Cincinnati that I'm confused on. Their top 3 wins are: Dayton (solid, but not amazing), Xavier (they're 9-6), and Georgia Tech (they're 8-7).
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u/bkervick UConn Huskies 2d ago
I've had Cincinnati in much of the season, but this was the week they had to drop out. Many other teams with improving resumes and theirs not so much.
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u/Life-Veterinarian699 Nebraska Cornhuskers • NIT 2d ago
Baylor game is a make or break game I feel like for them
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u/KingInDaNorf34 Houston Cougars • Texas A&M Aggies 2d ago
Seems a bit low for the aggies
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u/Life-Veterinarian699 Nebraska Cornhuskers • NIT 2d ago
Dropped them a lot after the opening loss to UCF. Tough schedule coming up and if they can win those next 2 they will jump up big time.
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u/Indigo_Menace Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago
If Kansas can play every game like they did yesterday, that’s gonna be a fun fun team to watch. Only haymakers, crushing boards and controlling the paint. We will see here soon if they can keep up with Iowa state though lol
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u/80cyclone Iowa State Cyclones 2d ago
Kansas will have a hell of a time stopping our scoring in the paint. Several guards, namely Keshon, are maestros at gaining the lane and finishing at the rim. Having Jefferson, who can not only score in the post, but distribute to cutting players, makes us a lot more lethal.
Historically, even under Otz, we can be our own worst enemy. Blocking out on the defensive glass is suspect/inconsistent, as is our intellect on the defensive end. We aren't a good doubling team, yet continue to do it more than we should. We also sag and collapse a lot (and when it's not necessary), leading to wide open 3s. If KU takes and hits their open 3s and hits the O glass hard? We will could have issues.
Having Jackson and Jefferson, especially the latter, drastically changes our team. He's the big we've been lacking and, at the moment, he's playing at a 1st team, all-conference level.
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u/Indigo_Menace Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago
Hitting open 3s isn’t in KUs playbook 😂😂
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u/80cyclone Iowa State Cyclones 2d ago
Better figure it out quick as that's probably the best way to get to us. Secondary is crashing those O boards (only Jefferson consistently bodies up and grabs boards on that end), and last is taking advantage of those doubles. The 3s will be there, but instead of shooting them you can drive then dish down low. Just like Tyson's Punchout, you need to upper cut us when we make our mistakes.
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u/byniri_returns Michigan State Spartans 2d ago
6 Big Ten teams yet none of them are higher than 14th, wild.
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u/younggun92 DePaul Blue Demons • Illinois Fighting Illi… 2d ago
Losing games in conference only helps if you're an SEC team. All the other conferences are filled with bad teams and losing once should get you unranked!
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u/willweaverrva VCU Rams 2d ago
Didn't have much time to work on the poll this week due to weather but I did get my ballot in:
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u/RagingLasagna Central Michigan Chippewas 2d ago
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u/WetDreaminOfParadise UConn Huskies • Rhode Island Rams 2d ago
No wacky comments?
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u/RagingLasagna Central Michigan Chippewas 2d ago
work been forcing some off-kilter viewing and sleeping schedules so only had the time to compile the rankings the last few weeks. still feel good about my rankings but comments will be back soon
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u/WetDreaminOfParadise UConn Huskies • Rhode Island Rams 2d ago
Ya that’s what stopped me from doing my polls. Well, that and the man saying I wasn’t ‘taking it seriously enough’ whatever that means.
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u/RagingLasagna Central Michigan Chippewas 2d ago
a hoops fan’s biggest opp is a job with evening shifts
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u/bkervick UConn Huskies 2d ago
Are Maryland fans still demanding to be ranked this week?
My ballot:
https://www.cbbpoll.net/ballots/10/659b86be5156284166ae73ba
Have the exact same top 7 in order. Slightly differing picks A&M at 13 instead of 9. Still have Oregon at 12, rankers have them at 15. Michigan State, who is at 16, I have in the poll this week. I placed them at 20 initially, but evaluating resumes I preferred Purdue and West Virginia so they ended up at 22. I have Memphis 3 spots and Utah St 5 spots higher than consensus. I found Michigan's resume to be weighed down by 3 mediocre losses, preferring Nebraska over them.
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u/Galumpadump Gonzaga Bulldogs • Washington State… 2d ago
I feel like WSU should be getting some votes.
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u/The_Longest_Shot Iowa State Cyclones 2d ago
How is Oklahoma still ranked after what we saw this weekend? They barely had a pulse
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u/Then_Economist8652 Baylor Bears 2d ago
What is Baylor doing outside t25 cmon now
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u/Unfinished-Basement Iowa State Cyclones 2d ago
In good news, the house should be done next week sometime. Just need a few more bricks.
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u/Travbowman Purdue Boilermakers 2d ago
They've played four teams on the list and lost by 4, 15, 19, and 38.
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u/bkervick UConn Huskies 2d ago
I wanted to keep them in, but the margin of their loss and their lack of quality wins meant they got passed by teams. Their best wins aren't aging the best, and they have 4 losses (even to mostly great teams, the margins have been stinky).
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u/AlFlame93 Texas A&M Aggies 2d ago
Texas A&M and Top 10
Things that always end up as a disaster