Below is the newest rankings from the blogpoll including 20 different basketball writers from across the web. The votes were cast following Big Monday’s games, so the losses by Tennessee and Texas A&M over the last two nights are not factored into the rankings. The column furthest to the right is my own personal ballot, and any ranking of “26” indicates that I did not rank that particular team in the Top 25. The full Excel document with everyone’s votes can be found here.

This week’s blogpoll consisted of votes from NCAA Hoops Today, March to Madness, SEC Hoops: The Good. The Bad. The Dirty., March Madness All Season, A Sea of Blue, Storming the Floor, Vegas Watch, WSU Hoops, Super, Scintillating, and Sarcastic, George Mason Basketball, College Hoops Journal, Gopher Nation, Bryce’s Brackets and Observations, Making the Dance, and yours truly. Five bloggers absented from this week’s vote.

With 15 of last week’s Top 25 losing, there was a lot of variance in the different rankings. In retrospect, I have no idea why I left Rhode Island in the poll, much less at 20th, but I am going to blame it on having to vote right after returning home from the 20-hour trip to Stillwater.

I had Pittsburgh significantly lower than other teams as a result of their loss to a Cincinnati team that has been awful all season long. The ‘Cats have come back to record wins over Syracuse, Villanova, and Pitt in conference, but they still have pretty lopsided losses to St. John’s and Notre Dame in the Big East. Perhaps time will prove Cincy to be a stronger team than I thought and validate the Panthers for this loss, but for this week I felt they were being overvalued.

Drake was ranked much lower in the cumulative poll than where I had them, but with so many losses in front of them that week, I slid them up the board to 12th. Clearly Drake is not actually the 12th best team in the country, but at this snapshot in time I feel it’s defensible that they are one of the 15 teams playing the best basketball. If you’ve got Full Court, you can be the judge when they air the Bulldogs hosting Northern Iowa on Saturday.

Thoughts, comments? Feel free to chime in here, and definitely pile on for the Rhode Island thing.