My Poll III

1. Georgia Tech
2. Wake Forest
3. Kansas
4. Syracuse
5. Illinois
6. Oklahoma State
7. Kentucky
8. Duke
9. Pittsburgh
10. Louisville
11. Connecticut
12. Mississippi State
13. Maryland
14. North Carolina
15. Alabama
16. Michigan State
17. Texas
18. Notre Dame
19. North Carolina State
20. Washington
21. Virgina
22. Gonzaga
23. Arizona
24. Wisconsin
25. Boston College

I moved Syracuse up, past Illinois, who has dropped two spots without losing in the past two weeks. I don’t like to do that, but before I was guessing, now I’m watching and I think Syracuse is better than I thought.

I dropped Carolina a lot. Santa Clara is not that good although they’re in my file of teams to consider now.. I only dropped Mississippi State a little, because they were supposed to lose to Syracuse and they did it with a-far-less-than-100-percent Lawrence Roberts.

NC State got a little boost too. I think I underrated them early. Virginia is my first new entry. I'll almost guarantee they'll have a bad loss within the next 10 days and I haven't even looked at their schedule. Memphis was hard to bounce considering they only lost to Syracuse, but I wanted to get Virginia in.

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If you missed Santa Clara upset coverage, it's here in the San Jose Mercury News.