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The regular college sport flavour has come to an modify and it is instance for test college sport rankings before the word tournaments begin.

The terminal hebdomad of the flavour was as exploding as the previous ones with teams suffering harmful losses but threesome teams evidenced they are the prizewinning of the prizewinning by the modify of this test week. While BYU, Texas and Duke all forfeited prevention games this time week, river State, river and metropolis evidenced they merit No. 1 March Madness seeds over just most anyone activity the game today.

Here are my test college sport Top 25 rankings before the word tournaments begin.

1. river State

It has been a daylong assemblage and patch whatever teams hit stepped into the No. 1 persona in the college sport rankings throughout the terminal pair of months, it is river State who proves they belong here above all others. While they hit the same achievement as Kansas, river State has maltreated threesome teams in the RPI Top 25, including a high intend over Wisconsin on Sunday. A 28-point intend over Wisconsin exclusive serves to dot the “I” when it comes to their merited blot as the No. 1 aggroup in the nation.

2. Kansas

Only river can vex a past Top 25 team, intend the Big 12 championship for the ordinal straightforward assemblage and closing the flavour with exclusive digit losses and ease talk most how they need to play better. While river has exclusive maltreated digit RPI Top 25 team, they are 9-2 against teams in the Top 50. They are the Big 12 Champion and hit surly enwrapped up a No. 1 cum for March Madness.

3. Pittsburgh

There are whatever grouping who conceive that metropolis deserves the No. 1 blot in the college sport rankings. Those grouping hit a enthusiastic argument. metropolis is 7-3 against RPI Top 25 teams and 2-1 against the rest of the Top 50. Their Top 25 achievement is miles meliorate than river but, when the whole Top 50 is additional in, river exclusive forfeited digit games compared to threesome losses for Pitt. This is all vacuous when March Madness starts. Both teams merit No. 1 rankings and won’t meet until late in the tournament, if they attain it that far.

4. Notre Dame

Notre Dame has fivesome losses, digit of which came against a aggroup that is not even ranked in the Top 50 RPI rankings. However, their 6-4 achievement against RPI Top 25 teams rivals exclusive that of playwright and St. John’s. Finishing the terminal hebdomad of the flavour with bounteous wins over Villanova and UConn pushes them into the No. 4 blot on my college sport rankings.

5. Syracuse

Syracuse was digit of the test victorious teams but then lapse hornlike with consecutive losses, digit of which were against non-quality teams. Despite that losing streak, city relic digit of the crowning teams in the nation and module be digit of the most dangerous teams when March Madness rolls around.

6. San Diego State

San Diego State forfeited digit games this season, both to BYU, but relic a thickened aggroup as March Madness rolls around. A bounteous expiration by BYU terminal hebdomad to New Mexico pushed San Diego State aweigh of them, despite the losses. Yes, BYU are the Aztecs kryptonite, but the Aztecs are ease a calibre aggroup heading into the yearend tournaments.

7. North Carolina

Who could hit thought that, digit assemblage after collapsing and absent the NCAA Tournament completely, that North Carolina could turn things around this fast? Who would hit thought that North Carolina could walk as they did at the move of the flavour but ease alter their fortunes and vex Duke for the command Championship? It happened and today North Carolina is hunting to attain their presence known in March Madness.

8. Duke

The defending domestic champions struggled at the modify of the season. They reached No. 1 in the college sport rankings at small twice this flavour but forfeited thickened games to drop them in the rankings. Their expiration to North Carolina at the modify of the flavour was harmful sufficiency to mayhap cost them their No. 1 cum for March Madness.

9. Brigham Young

BYU is not a intense team, despite their embarrassing expiration to New Mexico after suspending digit of their crowning players for unerect with his girlfriend. However, his expiration module ease perceive them in March Madness and, since that was BYU’s ordinal expiration to lesser calibre opponent, I can’t rank them some higher than this. All threesome BYU losses came to teams out of the RPI Top 25, explaining my selection to rank them below San Diego State, who they vex twice.

10. Florida

Florida has been threatening my Top 10 most of the season. They hit forfeited six games, quaternary of those to lesser calibre opponents. Those losses attain me want to rank them lower but with a achievement of 10-2 against RPI Top 25 teams, they are an enigma that gets this Top 10 senior to nous into competition action.

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Suggested by the author:

• North Carolina upsets Duke, wins command crown
• Arizona wins Pac-10 denomination with an impressive intend over Oregon
• UNC-Ashville is prototypal aggroup to acquire bid to NCAA March Madness tournament
• Kansas downs Missouri, clinches Big 12 title
• BYU falls to unranked New Mexico after suspending star cod to BYU take codes

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