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Ballot Breakdown: Men's side sees shift

How hoops writers Marcus Jackson and Scott Richey voted in this week’s men’s and women’s AP Top 25s:

Marcus Jackson's men's ballot

1. Maryland
2. Kentucky
3. Michigan State
4. Kansas
5. Iowa State
6. Duke
7. Oklahoma
8. North Carolina
9. Villanova
10. Virginia
11. Purdue
12. Syracuse
13. Gonzaga
14. Texas A&M
15. Xavier
16. Vanderbilt
17. Oregon
18. Baylor
19. Connecticut
20. West Virginia
21. Miami
22. Butler
23. Cincinnati
24. Providence
25. Arizona

From about No. 11 on down, this was a tough week to put together a Top 25 with so many quality teams playing one another during Thanksgiving week.