It made me very sad to turn in my ballot on Monday morning to the folks at CBS, because this wasn't a good week for Mid-Majors. All of them in my poll dropped save for Siena. Utah State fell out entirely. Of course, that meant I had to place such marginal teams as Texas and Washington at the bottom of my Top 25, something I really hated to do because I just don't think either team is worthy...but at the same time, if I put teams like Utah, Utah State or Creighton into my vote, I'd get my ass kicked.
Someone did vote for the Jays in their poll, believe it or not, but it wasn't me. In fact, I got called out in the weekly "Transparency" article for not being biased ENOUGH. Call me the anti-ESPN, I guess. Of course, my rankings also have the fourth-highest deviation from the actual poll, which just confirms what you already knew about me -- that I march to my own beat.
That said, my promise on the Bluejay Cafe of putting Robert Morris into my poll just because some D-Bag keeps voting for them in the AP Poll didn't come true. In the end, my quest for honest voting outruled my significant temptation for humor. Besides, it would have been one week too late, as the D-Bag stopped voting for Bob Morris this week anyway. Alas.
Complete Top 25 after the jump, including a new number one -- proving that at least in some things, I agree with the crowd. The rest of my top ten shoots that theory to tiny shards of truthiness.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pittsburgh |  3 |
| 2 | Louisville | 5 |
| 3 | Memphis | 2 |
| 4 | Oklahoma |  3 |
| 5 | Duke | 6 |
| 6 | North Carolina | 3 |
| 7 | Connecticut | 5 |
| 8 | Michigan St. | 2 |
| 9 | Missouri | 1 |
| 10 | Kansas | |
| 11 | Arizona St. | 3 |
| 12 | Gonzaga | 1 |
| 13 | Wake Forest | 1 |
| 14 | Marquette | 5 |
| 15 | Villanova | 2 |
| 16 | Dayton | 7 |
| 17 | Butler | 2 |
| 18 | Clemson | 2 |
| 19 | UCLA | 3 |
| 20 | Xavier | 2 |
| 21 | Purdue | 3 |
| 22 | Louisiana St. | |
| 23 | Siena | 2 |
| 24 | Washington | 3 |
| 25 | Texas | |
| Last week's ballot | ||
Dropped Out: Utah St. (#23).
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