We did our first regular-season voting on Sunday, BEFORE Tennessee lost to Virginia, remember. I’m a notorious night owl and, thus, a notorious late voter. But one way or another, despite greater and lesser degrees of angst, I always do send in a ballot.
I’m not going to stew over these early ones (too much). Save that more for January.
But here’s what I came up with Sunday:
1. Connecticut, 2. Rutgers, 3. Tennessee, 4. Duke, 5. Oklahoma, 6. California, 7. Vanderbilt, 8. North Carolina, 9. Baylor, 10. Stanford, 11. Louisville, 12. Maryland, 13. Texas, 14. Virginia, 15. Texas A&M, 16. Arizona State, 17. Notre Dame, 18. Oklahoma State, 19. Purdue, 20. Iowa State, 21. Pittsburgh, 22. Auburn, 23. Ohio State, 24. Utah, 25. Marquette