NCAAM Power Rankings: Week 5

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

1. Rhode Island
2. St Bonaventure
3. UMass
4. VCU
5. Davidson
6. Duquesne
7. La Salle
8. St Joes
9. St Louis
10. Richmond
11. GW
12. George Mason
13. Dayton
14. 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 of the year.

AAC

1. Wichita State
2. Cincy
3. SMU
4. Houston
5. Temple
6. UCF
7. Tulane
8. Tulsa
9. UConn
10. Memphis
11. USF
12. ECU

SMU looked great in a 23-point win over Boise State, as the Broncos look to challenge Wichita State and Cincy.

ACC

1. UNC
2. Duke
3. Miami
4. Virginia
5. FSU
6. BC
7. Clemson
8. Notre Dame
9. VTech
10. Louisville
11. NC State
12. Syracuse
13. Wake Forest
14. GTech
15. Pitt

Notre Dame plummets, as BC and Clemson rise as the ACC race gets weird.

Big 12

1. West Virginia
2. Kansas
3. Oklahoma
4. TCU
5. Texas Tech
6. Baylor
7. Iowa State
8. Oklahoma State
9. Texas
10. Kansas State

Texas drops after a tough week, but the Big 12 is proving that it is going to be super competitive this year from top to bottom.

Big East

1. Villanova
2. Xavier
3. Creighton
4. Seton Hall
5. St Johns
6. Butler
7. Providence
8. Georgetown
9. Depaul
10. Marquette

Providence continues to underperform against non power schools, and Georgetown showed us that they are not as bad as we thought this year.

Big Ten

1. MSU
2. Purdue
3. Michigan
4. Maryland
5. Ohio State
6. Minnesota
7. Penn State
8. Rutgers
9. Northwestern
10. Iowa
11. Nebraska
12. Illinois
13. Indiana
14. Wisconsin

The race for #3 in the Big Ten is tight, but Michigan takes it this week.

Indiana and Wisconsin hit rock bottom, and dragged Illinois with them.

PAC 12

1. ASU
2. Arizona
3. USC
4. UCLA
5. Oregon
6. Oregon State
7. Washington
8. Utah
9. Colorado
10. Washington State
11. Stanford
12. Cal

Arizona flipped the switch and climbed towards the top, but still sit behind the hottest team in college hoops.

SEC

1. Kentucky
2. Texas A/M
3. Tennessee
4. Auburn
5. Alabama
6. Florida
7. Arkansas
8. Georgia
9. Missouri
10. LSU
11. Miss State
12. South Carolina
13. Ole Miss
14. Vandy

Florida drops out of the top-25 and down to #6 in my rankings after the week they had.