Wednesday, November 15, 2006

My First Hoops Top 10

I am going with the same ranking process that I used for football. I will base my rankings entirely on results from this season, and I will try to avoid allowing perceived strengths and weaknesses of teams compromise my rankings. A win over a quality opponent is a win over a quality opponent regardless of what I think of your teams deficiencies.

Since I am only using this year's results where possible, there will be a disproportionate number of highly ranked mid-majors early on due to upset wins in pre-season tournaments. This should work itself out once the marquee teams start playing against each other. Only a handfull of teams have wins of note this year, so I will rank the bottom teams based upon last year's NCAA tournament results. This will give me a starting point for my next week's rankings.

1. Virginia (1-0, W 93-90 vs Arizona)
2. Air Force (3-0, W 81-45 vs Ark Pine-Bluff; W 69-68 @ Long Beach St; W 79-45 @ Stanford)
3. Western Kentucky (2-0, W 96-55 @ Kennesaw; W 70-67 @ Georgia)
4. Butler (3-0, W 77-37 @ Tulane; W 71-69 vs Notre Dame; W 60-55 vs Indiana)
5. Georgetown (2-0, W 69-59 vs Hartford; W 86-70 @ Vanderbilt)
6. Kansas State (2-0, W 70-60 vs Wm & Mary; W 55-41 @ Rutgers)
7. Maryland (3-0, W 102-75 vs Hampton; W 81-63 vs Vermont; W 93-54 vs Florida A&M)
8. Southern Utah (2-0, W 76-73 @ Utah; W 74-68 @ Denver)
9. New Mexico (3-0, W 94-54 vs Abilene Christian; W 92-56 vs Sacramento St; W 106-65 vs Colorado)
10. Vermont (2-1, W 82-65 @ New Orleans; L 63-81 @ Maryland; W 77-63 @ Boston College)
11. Oral Roberts (1-1, L 65-68 @ Loyola-Marymount; W 78-71 @ Kansas)
12. UCLA (1-0, W 86-69 vs BYU)
13. Nevada (2-0, W 85-62 vs Alaska Anchorage; W 75-47 @ Oregon St)
14. Southeastern Louisiana (3-0, W 76-69 vs Cal Poly; W 65-63 @ Oregon St; W 63-55 @ Richmond)
15. Florida (2-0, W 79-54 vs Samford; W 86-40 vs Norfolk)
16. George Mason(1-0, W 79-74 @ Cleveland St)
17. LSU (0-0, idle)
18. Villanova (1-0, W 97-60 @ Northwood)
19. Memphis (0-0, idle)
20. Connecticut (1-0, W 53-46 vs Quinnipiac)
21. Texas (2-0, W 103-44 vs Alcorn St; W 92-66 vs Chicago St)
22. Gonzaga (3-0, W 90-75 vs Eastern WA; W 88-50 vs Rice; W 78-69 vs Baylor)
23. Wichita State (2-0, W 71-47 vs Rockhurst; W 76-64 vs Chicago St)
24. Duke (2-0, W 86-43 vs Columbia; W 72-48 vs Ga Southern)
25. Alabama (1-0, W 96-65 vs Jackson St)

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