| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|
| 1 |   Arizona | undefeated, many impressive wins (4 wins against ranked opps) |
| 2 |  Michigan | undefeated, impressive wins (2 wins against ranked opps) blew out Gonzaga |
| 3 |  Iowa State | another undefeated team, 2 wins against ranked opps, and beat #1 (at the time) purdue |
| 4 |  UConn | 12-1 and only loss in a close one to arizona |
| 5 |  Duke | 11-1 with only loss recently in a close one with ranked ttu, many ranked wins |
| 6 |  Purdue | 11-1, ranked wins, only loss to Iowa state but regardless of losing by 23 pts |
| 7 |  Houston | also 11-1, 2 ranked wins, only loss to ranked Tennessee in a close one |
| 8 |  Michigan State | 11-1, 2 ranked wins, and only loss was a narrow defeat to an amazing duke team |
| 9 |  Gonzaga | 12-1, impressive wins, but blown out by UM |
| 10 |  Vanderbilt | 12-0 undefeated, not any higher bcuz lack of a ranked win |
| 11 |  BYU | 12-1 , 1 ranked win, and a close loss towards uconn |
| 12 |  Nebraska | undefeated with a win over ranked illinois |
| 13 |  North Carolina | 12-1 with a couple of ranked wins, only loss to MSU |
| 14 |  Texas Tech | 9-3 with win over a stunning Duke team, but 3 losses holds them back from being farther up |
| 15 |  Louisville | 10-2. ranked wins but losses to Arkansas and Tennessee |
| 16 |  Alabama | 9-3 beat St John's and illi, but lost to top teams in arguably their biggest games yet |
| 17 |  Kansas | 10-3 beat tennessee are Arch rival Mizzou (even if they aren't the best), but crueling losses to uconn, NC, and duke |
| 18 |  Tennessee | 9-3 with convincing wins over Houston and Louisville, but had a 3 game losing streak to Kansas, Syracuse, and illinois |
| 19 |  Illinois | 9-3 with amazing wins over ttu and tennessee but losses to Bama, Nebraska, and powerhouse uconn |
| 20 |  Arkansas | 9-3 beat losuville and beat ttu, lost to Houston Duke and msu |
| 21 |  Virginia | 11-1 but lost to butler |
| 22 |  Georgia | 11-1 but lost in a close one to clemson |
| 23 |  USC | 12-1 but lost to washington |
| 24 |  Iowa | 10-2 lost to big time teams Iowa state and msu |
| 25 |  Florida | 8-4, losses to ranked teams Arizona, Duke and conn, and unranked TCU holds them back. beat rival fsu |
