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RCT College Basketball Top 25 Week 8 - 1/27/14

Our weekly attempt to make sense of the College Basketball hierarchy.

It's ok guys... the RCT Top 25 poll is here.
It's ok guys... the RCT Top 25 poll is here.
Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports

We have a few huge movers in each direction this week.

Michigan put everyone on notice last week, and then followed it up with another great week.  Creighton rocked Villanova to announce its own arrival.

Rank Team Points LW Change
1 Arizona(4) 148 1 0
2 Syracuse(2) 146 1 -1
3 Florida 128 5 2
4 San Diego State 121 5 1
5 Wichita State 119 5 0
6 Michigan State 117 3 -3
7 Kansas 115 9 2
8 Michigan 103 19 11
9 Villanova 102 4 -5
10 Wisconsin 91 8 -2
11 Creighton 89 20 9
12 Oklahoma State 81 11 -1
13 Iowa 73 10 -3
14 Pittsburgh 72 13 -1
15 Cincinnati 65 13 -2
16 Iowa State 61 12 -4
17 Kentucky 53 17 0
18 Duke 51 22 4
19 Louisville 43 18 -1
20 Saint Louis 41 21 1
21 Massachusetts 28 15 -6
22 Memphis 27 23 1
23 Oklahoma 24 24 1
24 Texas 13 NR 8
25 Connecticut 11 NR 2





Others Receiving Votes: Virginia 8, Ohio State 7, UCLA 5, Florida State 4, Harvard 2, Minnesota 2
New this week: Texas, Connecticut
Dropping out: Ohio State(16) , Harvard(24)
Biggest Movers:
Michigan +11, Creighton +9, Texas +8
Ohio State -11, Harvard -6, Massachusetts -6

To make this a bit easier to see on mobile phones (specifically for my benefit), I've broken the actual ballots into two groups.

Rank misterbrain Byronkewel kcgregory
1 Arizona Syracuse Arizona
2 Syracuse Arizona Syracuse
3 San Diego State Wichita State Florida
4 Florida Florida Michigan State
5 Kansas San Diego State Villanova
6 Wichita State Kansas San Diego State
7 Creighton Michigan State Kansas
8 Pittsburgh Michigan Wichita State
9 Michigan State Villanova Kentucky
10 Michigan Oklahoma State Iowa State
11 Kentucky Wisconsin Michigan
12 Villanova Iowa State Wisconsin
13 Oklahoma State Cincinnati Oklahoma State
14 Wisconsin Creighton Saint Louis
15 Oklahoma Louisville Cincinnati
16 Iowa State Iowa Iowa
17 Memphis Kentucky Duke
18 Cincinnati Massachusetts Pittsburgh
19 Iowa Memphis Creighton
20 Saint Louis Duke Massachusetts
21 Duke Pittsburgh Louisville
22 Connecticut Ohio State Connecticut
23 Louisville Texas Oklahoma
24 Virginia Oklahoma Memphis
25 Texas Saint Louis Texas

Rank PenHawk mikeville sax solo
1 Arizona Syracuse Arizona
2 Syracuse Arizona Syracuse
3 Florida San Diego State Wichita State
4 Michigan State Wichita State Creighton
5 San Diego State Michigan State Michigan
6 Wisconsin Florida Iowa
7 Kansas Kansas Pittsburgh
8 Oklahoma State Villanova Florida
9 Villanova Michigan Kansas
10 Michigan Wisconsin Michigan State
11 Iowa Creighton Villanova
12 Creighton Cincinnati Wisconsin
13 Wichita State Oklahoma State San Diego State
14 Pittsburgh Duke Duke
15 Kentucky Iowa Cincinnati
16 Louisville Pittsburgh Iowa State
17 Iowa State Saint Louis Louisville
18 Cincinnati Massachusetts Oklahoma State
19 Duke Texas Saint Louis
20 Saint Louis Memphis Massachusetts
21 UCLA Louisville Virginia
22 Oklahoma Oklahoma Florida State
23 Memphis Connecticut Ohio State
24 Harvard Iowa State Minnesota
25 Texas Virginia Kentucky

Please remember that these votes were submitted prior to the games on Monday night.  Other than that, feel free to find our stupidity and ridicule us mercilessly for it.