New Power 16 as of 1/31

[heath_harshman4]

http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncb/powerranking?season=2008&week=13&pollId=1

memphis obvious #1

then Duke #2, Kansas #3, and UNC #4. Pretty chalk if you ask me.

Hubert Davis was kind enough to jump Duke to #7!! Obviously he has seen some major flaws for this team in their ONE loss... And Jay Bilas being Jay, over-doing his non-biased opinion has Duke at #5. The rest have Duke at either 2 or 3.

[hc5duke]

Duke holds at #2... but here's the weird part:

Week 13 (1/31) (link (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/powerranking?season=2008&week=13&pollId=1&show=first))
Fran Fraschilla and Andy Katz both had:

Memphis
Duke
Kansas


--- after that ---

Duke
won 92-72 against NCSU (RPI 40)
won 88-73 against Miami (RPI 48)
won 89-78 at #3 UNC (RPI 4)


Kansas
won 72-59 at Colorado (RPI >100)
won 90-71 against Missouri (RPI 80)


--- and yet ---

Week 14 (now) (link (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/powerranking?season=2008&week=14&pollId=1&show=first)):
Fran Fraschilla and Andy Katz now has:

Memphis
Kansas
Duke


What gives? That makes no sense to me. Even Hubert Davis has us all the way up at 5 (at least he now has UNC at 6), up from 7 last week (which still makes him a tool).

Other noteworthy position change: Jay Bilas now has UCLA at #1 over Memphis. I'm guessing that has more to do with Memphis's close game against UTEP than UCLA's wins over UA and ASU.