Mr. T's Top 25 Power Rankings (3/8)

I'm putting these up after St. Mary's thrashing of Gonzaga in the WCC tournament. I've been a tad suspicious of Gonzaga all year, espeically after personally watching them get their asses handed to them by Duke at the Garden in December. I've dropped em to 20th, but I'm sure there are those out there that would think they should be dropped further. Frakly, I'm not ready to jump to that conclusion yet because this is the weakest group of NCAA teams I can ever remember seeing. There are so many mediocre teams out there that I can't necessarily say any team I placed after Gonzaga is any better than them. Does this all even matter with the bracket coming out in a week?

And yes I still have Syracuse over Kentucky because I still think they're the better team with more quality wins.

(Last week's rankings on my ballot in parenthesis)

1. Kansas (1)
2. Syracuse (2)
3. Kentucky (3)
4. Ohio St. (6)
5. West Virginia (8)
6. Duke (5)
7. Kansas St. (4)
8. Purdue (9)
9. Wisconsin (11)
10. Baylor (14)
11. Michigan St. (12)
12. Vanderbilt (13)
13. Villanova (7)
14. Tennessee (16)
15. Georgetown (10)
16. New Mexico (16)
17. Butler (17)
18. Pittsburgh (18)
19. Maryland (25)
20. Gonzaga (11)
21. Temple (20)
22. Xavier (24)
23. Marquette (21)
24. Texas A&M (25)
25. Brigham Young (23)

Dropped from the rankings: None

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Mr. T's Top 25 Power Rankings (3/1)

The AP and Coaches polls have spoken and have made Syracuse the #1 overall team in the country. I'm not as heated about that as I am seeing New Mexico at #8 in the AP poll, but I don't agree myself. Since neither team has very high quality non-conference wins, you have to look at their losses and their conference strength. Kansas' both losses were on the road, while Cuse's two losses were at home. The quality of the losses (Tennessee and Oklahoma St. for Kansas vs. Pittsburgh and Louisville for Cuse) are basically the same. Finally, the Big 12 is a better conference this year top to bottom. The Big East may have more elite teams, but they also have a lot more garbage sitting at the bottom of the conference.

(Last week's rankings on my ballot in parenthesis)

1. Kansas (1)
2. Syracuse (3)
3. Kentucky (2)
4. Kansas St. (5)
5. Duke (6)
6. Ohio St. (8)
7. Villanova (7)
8. West Virginia (9)
9. Purdue (4)
10. Wisconsin (11)
11. Gonzaga (12)
12. Michigan St. (13)
13. Vanderbilt (14)
14. Baylor (15)
15. Georgetown (10)
16. New Mexico (20)
17. Butler (21)
18. Tennessee (16)
19. Pittsburgh (14)
20. Temple (22)
21. Marquette (24)
22. Maryland (25)
23. Brigham Young (18)
24. Xavier (NR)
25. Texas A&M (NR)

Dropped from the rankings: Texas (19) and Richmond (23)

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