Rock Chalk Talk NCAA Basketball Top 25 Poll: Kansas debuts at #2

Here at Rock Chalk Talk, we believe that it’s hard to know what teams are actually good until we have seen them in action. That’s why rather than trying to cobble together rankings early in the season, we give some time for teams to establish themselves before we try to measure them against each other. This is our 4th year for the RCT Top 25, and the first time that we started after the beginning of conference play (thanks to the Final Four being at the very beginning of April).

Please remember that each voter is using their own criteria, whether it’s hottest team now, best overall resume, which team passes the “eye test”, which mascot is the fiercest (hopefully not really), which team is spit out by David’s formula, or any other thing happens to put one team above another in a ranking. We’ll probably even see the season debut of sax solo’s easy button as well in the next couple weeks. But for now, let’s look at what the poll says.

The ACC leads all conferences with 6 teams in the poll, with the Big East next with 4 and the Big 12, Big Ten and PAC 12 tied at 3 apiece. The Big 12 seems to be top heavy this year, with three of the top four spots, but the ACC probably has the biggest top tier this year.

We also take a look at the individual votes, so feel free to go all Poll Attacks on someone if you feel you must. At least here they get a chance to defend their reasoning.