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December 26, 2007

MRI 2007 - Week 5: North Carolina #1 in a 3rd Poll

North Carolina has scrambled their way to the #1 spot.With the holidays here, game slates are smaller, but in some cases more important. This week saw Duke, Clemson, and Georgetown all lose their first games of the year, and all of those losses came in games against other undefeated teams.

Nroth Carolina took advantage of some of these slips to jump to the #1 spot this week, unseating Kansas. The two teams have separated themselves from the pack a little and now have a nice lead on #3 Wisconsin.

Rounding out the top 5 are Texas A&M and West Virginia.

With the short week, the next MRI will be published on January 7th. That also corresponds with the start of my return to school books at Northwestern. As a result, I am not sure how often the MRI website will be updated with Games to Watch, or other articles. However, I will do my best to keep you updated with your favorite numerical rankings.

But, until then, you can check out all the rankings in week 5 of the MRI.


And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
North Carolina
11-0
124.71
2
2
Kansas
11-0
122.49
1
3
Wisconsin
9-2
111.57
3
4
Texas A&M
10-1
109.07
9
5
West Virginia
9-1
107.29
4
6
UCLA
10-1
103.62
6
7
Duke
10-1
103.11
5
8
Memphis
10-0
100.93
11
9
Stanford
10-1
98.41
13
10
Michigan State
11-1
97.34
15
11
Pittsburgh
10-0
95.92
8
12
Texas
10-1
95.80
7
13
Virginia
9-2
94.60
23
14
Indiana
10-1
92.43
10
15
Mississippi
11-0
90.89
20
16
Villanova
9-1
90.50
19
17
Notre Dame
8-2
89.08
14
18
Minnesota
8-1
88.84
18
19
Xavier
8-3
88.70
12
20
New Mexico
11-2
88.17
NR(29)
21
Drake
7-1
87.13
17
22
Connecticut
8-2
86.69
NR(28)
23
Butler
11-1
86.50
NR(32)
24
Marquette
8-1
86.36
NR(31)
25
Rhode Island
11-1
85.39
NR(30)

Teams Dropped From The Top 25:
Florida State (LW #16, TW #28), Gonzaga (LW #21, TW #33), Florida (LW #22, TW #35), Clemson (LW #24, TW #43), Georgetown (LW #25, TW #48)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
26
Tennessee
10-1
85.14
27
28
Florida State
10-4
84.15
16
30
Miami
11-0
84.02
35
37
Arizona
8-2
77.73
48
38
Vanderbilt
11-0
76.88
41
42
Dayton
10-1
74.18
53
58
Illinois
7-4
65.42
55
65
Washington
7-4
63.15
104
70
Purdue
8-4
60.79
54
71
Boston College
8-2
59.62
65
76
Ohio
8-4
58.01
72
90
Texas Tech
5-5
52.15
86
92
Northern Iowa
7-3
50.26
87
106
Georgia Tech
5-5
47.03
142
127
Illinois-Chicago
7-4
41.30
157
131
Maryland
6-6
39.81
103
138
Auburn
7-2
38.57
143
140
Kentucky
5-5
36.60
132
141
LSU
6-4
36.53
117
168
Iowa
6-6
28.20
168
180
Michigan
4-8
23.49
169
198
Drexel
6-5
20.31
223
205
Wofford
4-4
17.99
275
279
Pennsylvania
4-7
0.27
296
298
Ball State
0-11
-7.17
278

Last Place this week: North Carolina Central (1-15) at -91.34.

Biggest Gain this week: Southern Mississippi gained 19.82 points. (Beat New Orleans (84-62), Louisiana Tech (80-56), and Alcorn State (86-61), Lost to McNeese State (57-63))
Biggest Loss this week: Northern Colorado lost 21.12 points (Lost to Gonzaga (57-77), Oregon State (56-65), and Portland (63-70))

Conference rankings this week: PAC-10, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, SEC, MVC, Mountain West, Atlantic 10, C-USA. The WAC is 18th.

The MRI Rankings are copyright 2007 by MRISports.com. Ben Miraski writes for MRISports.com and is a featured blogger on FanIQ. Readers can contact Ben at bmiraski@mrisports.com

Posted by bmiraski at December 26, 2007 5:25 PM

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