SDFDuck's Week 11 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houston | Marcus Sasser. (Another interesting week in the books.) |
| 2 | Kansas | Death, Taxes, and KU atop the B12 (Lots of losses means the voters have their work cut out for them.) |
| 3 | Purdue | The only B1G team on my ballot this week. (But we are also starting to get some separation by the top-5 from the rest of the pack.) |
| 4 | Gonzaga | Saint Mary's is actually favored to win the WCC per KenPom and BartTorvik. Very strange. |
| 5 | UCLA | |
| 6 | Xavier | |
| 7 | Texas | |
| 8 | Iowa State | A narrow loss on the road against a higher-ranked opponent should not be reason enough to drop a team in the rankings. |
| 9 | Virginia | |
| 10 | Marquette | See Iowa State. |
| 11 | Tennessee | Losses to Colorado and Kentucky. What IS this team?! |
| 12 | Kansas State | Computers are still skeptical (26 in both Torvik and KenPom) |
| 13 | Arizona | Losses to Oregon and Washington State. What IS this team?! |
| 14 | Charleston | They keep winning, so they keep rising on my ballot. Punishing a team for playing in a "weak" conference is dumb. |
| 15 | Miami (FL) | Wait, is NC State good? I don't really know, but a 2-point OT loss shouldn't knock them too hard. |
| 16 | Providence | Computers do not like this team at all (30 KenPom, 40 Torvik), but three Q1 wins speak for themselves. |
| 17 | Florida Atlantic | HOOT HOOT HOOT HOOT HOOT HOOT HOOT |
| 18 | Auburn | |
| 19 | New Mexico | Two Q1 wins. This team gets no respect. |
| 20 | TCU | Their soft NCSoS could absolutely be the reason they get left out of the dance if they stumble in conference play. |
| 21 | San Diego State | Strangely disparate numbers between Torvik (14) and KenPom (31). |
| 22 | NC State | I guess NC State is pretty good. |
| 23 | Baylor | The B12 really is a meat grinder. |
| 24 | Saint Mary's | I don't get this team. Computers absolutely love them (5 Torvik, 8 KenPom) but they have just one Q1 win and two Q3 losses. |
| 25 | Clemson | Four Q1 wins. Two Q4 losses. Horrible computer numbers (54 KenPom, 61 Torvik). This season's Rutgers? (see below) |
Overall Rationale
Clemson, Clemson, Clemson, what the heck am I supposed to think of you? I ranked you this week because you sit atop the ACC standings with several impressive performances, yet you have Q4 losses to South Carolina and Loyola-Chicago and a non-conference SoS below 300. Your profile is eerily similar to Rutgers's last season, except your bad losses were all away from home, and BartTorvik seems to be giving you a better shot of making the dance than they gave Rutgers (64% to make the field as I type this, as opposed to 0% for Rutgers last season on Selection Sunday). If you continue on this strange trend and somehow manage to miss the field, it will confirm my suspicions that the Committee just sorta picks teams that are "feel good" stories instead of following metrics or resumes.