ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Here’s this week’s installment. No major jumps, but a couple of big drops (Oregon, Syracuse and Texas A&M all fell off my ballot after being ranked 14, 17 and 22, respectively).
The teams knocking on the door that didn’t make it were Utah, Oregon, Syracuse and Dayton.
As for a more in-depth explanation of why I still don’t feel the Mountain West’s top team so far, UNLV, is worth of a Top 25 vote on my ballot (I suspect they might be ranked anyway or very close), the reality is there are some questions and the résumé is hardly a slam dunk at this point (a neutral court loss to an unranked team and zero wins to currently ranked teams, though I realize Indiana and Oregon were ranked at the time they played).