Maladroit44's Week 9 Ballot

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Purdue	not awake enough to do good recaps this week. gg Purdue on (sort of backing into) #1
2	UConn	huskies still good tho
3	Houston	#2 is basically a dead heat here, I have no idea who I'd pick on a neutral court
4	UCLA	uhcluh
5	Tennessee	orange bowl champs babyyyy
6	Kansas	not to be a homer but KU 100% got away with a game-winning foul to beat OKST
7	Arizona	uggghhh okay Arizona is probably good
8	Alabama	good (???) win over miss state
9	Xavier	I feel vindicated about top ten Xavier, to say the least.
10	Arkansas	can't remember the last time Arkansas played a competitive opponent before LSU the other day
11	Texas	chris beard is still employed
12	Gonzaga	gonzaga is about to go like 18-2 in conference play and I'll still have no clue if they're all that good
13	Virginia	probably possibly not dead
14	New Mexico	LAND
15	Ohio State	low key also have no idea what OSU is exactly
16	West Virginia	not a bad loss to KSU. they'll be fine
17	Marquette	marquette has a funny resume where every team on it completely changes direction each week which means marquette goes nowhere
18	Charleston	could use a marquee win now that VT is bad but otherwise still great
19	Saint Mary's	okay I think the metrics might have a point on these guys, they're 12-4 and two of the losses are 14-1 Houston and 14-0 UNM
20	San Diego State	really, really good win at UNLV
21	Florida Atlantic	owls jumpscare
22	Auburn	I do not respect the SEC
23	TCU	shit idk they're probably good at this point. but the nwst loss is still comedy
24	Wisconsin	are you okay
25	Samford	socon team of the week: samford was on a seven-game losing streak and down 60% of their starters. went 2-0 to start conference play. basketball!

Overall Rationale

also considered: duke, unc, unlv, kentucky, psu, providence, baylor, memphis, mizzou