AP Poll MSU Duke Villanova ASU Xavier West Virginia Oklahoma Virginia Wichita State Kansas Texas A&M UNC Purdue Arizona Miami TCU Kentucky Texas Tech Gonzaga Cincinnati Seton Hall Arkansas Tennessee FSU Clemson Top-25 Breakdown MSU takes over at #1 after Villanova falls to Butler. Xavier and West Virginia, who were my number one contenders in their respective conferences, continue to rise in the top-10. Virginia and Gonzaga are way too high for me, while Arizona is too low. Lastly, we welcome two new teams this week: Arkansas, who upset Tennessee, and Clemson, who cannot seem to cool off. Top-25 Notes…
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Zach Pretzer
College Basketball Enthusiast and a Sports Management Major at Northwood University.
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Every week, I will be posting my bracketology and bubble. *Filled in with red are the play-in games* *The first team of each seed plays the first team in the opposing seed, for example seed 1-1 will play seed 16-1 as seed 8-4 will play seed 9-4* Bubble Last 4 Byes: Iowa State, SMU, Houston, UCLA. Last 4 In: Texas,Minnesota, Oklahoma State, Georgia. First 4 Out: Butler, Syracuse, NC State, Ohio State. Next 4 Out: Tulane, Louisville, Alabama, Nevada.
Each Week, I will be posting my Mid Major Top-25 highlighting the top 25 teams from non-power conferences. These rankings exclude the A10, AAC and WCC. Also included each week will be a breakdown of all notable mid major notes around the country. Highlighted teams are in bold. Last Week’s Rankings Mid Major Top-25 New Mexico State Middle Tennessee Boise State Nevada SF Austin UNLV Oakland UT Arlington Hawaii Portland State South Dakota State Cental Michigan UNI Loyola Chicago Wofford Georgia State ULL Ltech Marshall Northern Colorado Albany Wright State Grand Canyon Wyoming South Dakota Mid Major Notes WOFFORD UPSETS…
Each week, I will be posting my power rankings from all the power conferences including the A10 and AAC. Also at the end of each ranking, I will add a few remarks on different team’s movements. A10 Rhode Island St Bonaventure VCU St. Louis St. Joes Davidson GW La Salle Umass Duquesne Richmond Dayton George Mason Fordham St. Bonaventure is back to full power, as their star Jaylen Adams returns. The Bonnies can easily challenge Rhode Island for the A10 title. Richmond also returns their star Khwan Fore, who should help the 2-10 Spiders turn their season around and have…
AP Poll Villanova MSU Arizona State Duke Texas A/M Xavier West Virginia Wichita State Virginia TCU Kansas Oklahoma UNC Purdue Miami Kentucky Arizona Baylor Tennessee Gonzaga Cincy Texas Tech Seton Hall Florida State Creighton Top-25 Breakdown Trae Young and Oklahoma are taking the College Hoop Nation by storm, as they continue to rise up the poll. Kentucky, who fell to UCLA, drops a bit, and no new teams join the poll this week as no one fell out. This week was pretty boring overall, but a few minor things happened, and they are below. #13 UNC answers a very bad…
Every week, I will be posting my bracketology and bubble. (No top ten players today). *Filled in with red are the play in games* *The first team of each seed plays the first team in the opposing seed, for example seed 1-1 will play seed 16-1 as seed 8-4 will play seed 9-4* Bubble Last 4 Byes: Syracuse, Auburn, St Johns, Iowa State. Last 4 In: Arkansas, Houston, Oklahoma State, Rutgers. First 4 Out: UCLA, Alabama, Minnesota, Northwestern Next 4 Out: Texas, Louisville, Penn State, Georgia
Every week, I will be posting my Mid Major Top-25 highlighting the top 25 teams from non-power conferences. These rankings exclude the A10, AAC and WCC. Also included each week will be a breakdown of all notable mid major notes around the country. Highlighted teams are in bold. Last Week’s Rankings Mid Major Top-25 Nevada Boise State Middle Tennessee SF Austin UNLV New Mexico State Loyola Chicago UT Arlington ULL Oakland Towson UNI Grand Canyon Hawaii SDSU Jack Rabbits Central Michigan Portland State Marshall South Dakota Wofford Northern Colorado Albany Wyoming NKU Wright State Mid Major Notes Milwaukee has had…
Every week, I will be posting my power rankings from all the power conferences including the A10 and AAC. Also at the end of each ranking, I will add a few remarks on different team’s movements. A10 Rhode Island St Bonaventure UMass VCU Davidson Duquesne La Salle St Joes St Louis Richmond GW George Mason Dayton Fordham UMass rises to #3 after a huge win against Georgia. Rhode Island and St Bonaventure seem like the clear top dogs in the conference, so the race for #3 will be important, since #3 should be right on the bubble at the end…
Each week on Monday, I will be posting a breakdown of the AP Top 25, as well as other headlines from power conference teams around the country. Each highlighted team will be in bold. *AAC, A10, and WCC included in power conferences* AP Poll Villanova Michigan State Arizona State Duke UNC Miami Kentucky Texas A/M Xavier West Virginia Wichita State Gonzaga Virginia Kansas TCU Purdue Oklahoma Baylor Arizona Cincy Texas Tech Tennessee Seton Hall Florida State Creighton Top-25 Breakdown/Notes Villanova remains at number one and should stay there until they lose in Big East play since they have just Hofstra…
Every week, I will be posting my Top-10 Players from around the nation and a brief statement on why they are ranked in my top ten. *Not much change this week, except we welcome Mr. Ayton* Marvin Bagley (Duke)- Overall dominance in all categories. DeAndre Ayton (Arizona)- Turned Arizona’s bad start around. Grayson Allen (Duke)- Senior leader of Marvin, and all of Duke’s freshman. Trae Young (Oklahoma)- Averaging 29 points on the year. Tra Holder (ASU)- Made Arizona State a top 5 team in the country. Trevon Bluiett (Xavier)- Best shooter in the nation. Miles Bridges (MSU)- Top athletic player…