{"id":7965,"date":"2009-02-02T14:31:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2009-02-02T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:32:39","slug":"ncaab-top-25-rankings-20209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/handicapping\/ncaab-top-25-rankings-20209\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocketman&#8217;s TOP 25 CBB Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rocketman Sports TOP 25 CBB Rankings 2\/2\/09<\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at how my Top 25 CBB rankings compare to those of the AP and the USA Today rankings.  We\u2019ll give you some insight down below on who we think will be moving up the ladder and who we think will be moving down.  I\u2019m currently 43-27 61.4% this year in College Basketball after finishing 72-36 67% and documented #1 last  year in College Basketball action.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/11892\/mid\/2247\/basketball\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Betus NCAAB Betting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/banners\/NBA0708-1_260x150.gif\" alt=\"Betus NCAAB Betting\" width=\"260\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betus NCAAB Betting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Duke                            99.09<br \/>\nNorth Carolina 97.86<br \/>\nConnecticut                  96.04<br \/>\nPittsburgh                     94.7<br \/>\nUCLA                          94.44<br \/>\nLouisville                      94.29<br \/>\nOklahoma                    92.82<br \/>\nWashington                  92.63<br \/>\nWest Virginia                91.41<br \/>\nMemphis                      91.23<br \/>\nVillanova                      90.96<br \/>\nMarquette                    90.73<br \/>\nWake Forest                89.48<br \/>\nPurdue                         89.3<br \/>\nGonzaga                       88.61<br \/>\nClemson                       88.24<br \/>\nNew Mexico                87.86<br \/>\nLSU                             87.85<br \/>\nXavier                          87.64<br \/>\nVirginia Tech                87.43<br \/>\nTexas                           87.17<br \/>\nTennessee                    87.02<br \/>\nFlorida                         86.8<br \/>\nMinnesota                    86.72<br \/>\nKansas                         86.63<\/p>\n<p>First off, I think the ACC, with Duke and North Carolina, have the best chance of winning it all this year.\u00a0 This is going to be an incredible March Madness!\u00a0 I feel like the Big East, however, has the best overall conference.\u00a0 I would not be surprised if 10 teams got in from the Big East, but most likely 8 or 9.\u00a0 I agree with both the AP and USA today on Duke being the #1 team in the nation right now.\u00a0 I\u2019m a big Tar Heel fan though and I think they will win it all in the end.\u00a0 AP has 7 Big East teams in their Top 25 while the USA Today has 8.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only got 6 Big East teams in my Top 25 but look for Georgetown, Notre Dame and Syracuse to do well down the stretch and possibly make an entry in my Top 25.\u00a0 Big 10, Big 12 and SEC are definitely weak this year.\u00a0 Check back next week as we compare our Top 25 to the AP and USA today once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/respsportscapping.php?capper\/capper\/286\/Rocky%20Atkinson\/AF23_15\">Be sure to join Rocky Atkinson daily for his winning premium CBB picks right here at Capperspicks.com &gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a look at how my Top 25 CBB rankings compare to those of the AP and the USA Today rankings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[8488,9839,9838,9837,9835,9836,9834,1082,3158,8487],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handicapping","tag-cbb-rankings","tag-cbb-ratings","tag-cbb-top-25","tag-ncaab-top-25","tag-rocketman-picks","tag-rocketman-predictions","tag-rocketmans-ncaab-handicapping-tips","tag-rocky-atkinson","tag-top-25","tag-top-25-cbb-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}