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Mark BermanThe Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
E-mail: mark.berman@roanoke.com
Twitter: @BermanRoanoke
About: Mark Berman covers Virginia Tech basketball for The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Va. He is a Syracuse University graduate who grew up in Trumbull, Conn. He has been at The Roanoke Times since 1998. He covered James Madison for The Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va., from 1989-98. His blog can be read at http://blogs.roanoke.com/courtside.


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Jan 4, 2016Week 9 Rankings for Mark Berman
1Kansas (44)
12-1Actual: 1
Highest: 1 - 44 Voters
Lowest: 4 - Graham Couch
1598
Points
2Oklahoma (21)
12-0Actual: 2
Highest: 1 - 21 Voters
Lowest: 3 - 7 Voters
1574
Points
3Virginia
12-1Actual: 4
Highest: 3 - 9 Voters
Lowest: 6 - 5 Voters
1409
Points
4Maryland
13-1Actual: 3
Highest: 2 - 7 Voters
Lowest: 7 - 2 Voters
1459
Points
5Michigan State
14-1Actual: 5
Highest: 2 - 5 Voters
Lowest: 8 - 2 Voters
1400
Points
6North Carolina
13-2Actual: 6
Highest: 4 - 5 Voters
Lowest: 12 - Jeff Faraudo
1275
Points
7Providence
14-1Actual: 8
Highest: 5 - Jason Butt
Lowest: 17 - Soren Petro
1108
Points
8Miami (FL)
12-1Actual: 12
Highest: 5 - Kevin Lyttle
Lowest: 21 - Jon Wilner
921
Points
9Villanova
12-2Actual: 11
Highest: 6 - 2 Voters
Lowest: 17 - 2 Voters
979
Points
10Xavier
13-1Actual: 10
Highest: 5 - Graham Couch
Lowest: 19 - Jeff Faraudo
1001
Points
11Arizona
13-1Actual: 7
Highest: 6 - 10 Voters
Lowest: 17 - Aaron Brenner
1126
Points
12Kentucky
11-2Actual: 9
Highest: 5 - Scott Mansch
Lowest: 14 - 3 Voters
1039
Points
13Iowa State
11-2Actual: 13
Highest: 7 - 4 Voters
Lowest: 19 - Cecil Hurt
844
Points
14Butler
11-3Actual: 18
Highest: 11 - John McNamara
Lowest: NR - 3 Voters
516
Points
15Texas A&M
11-2Actual: 21
Highest: 15 - Mark Berman
Lowest: NR - Doug Doughty
420
Points
16SMU
13-0Actual: 15
Highest: 6 - Elton Alexander
Lowest: NR - Terry Toohey
731
Points
17Iowa
11-3Actual: 19
Highest: 9 - Cecil Hurt
Lowest: NR - 4 Voters
456
Points
18West Virginia
12-1Actual: 17
Highest: 11 - 2 Voters
Lowest: 24 - Tod Palmer
558
Points
19Louisville
12-2Actual: 16
Highest: 11 - Dick Vitale
Lowest: NR - 2 Voters
568
Points
20Duke
12-2Actual: 14
Highest: 6 - Scott Mansch
Lowest: 20 - Mark Berman
830
Points
21Purdue
13-2Actual: 20
Highest: 12 - Randy Rosetta
Lowest: 25 - Scott Wolf
450
Points
22California
12-3Actual: 27
Highest: 20 - Jon Rothstein
Lowest: NR - 45 Voters
54
Points
23UConn
10-3Actual: 23
Highest: 19 - 2 Voters
Lowest: NR - 28 Voters
107
Points
24South Carolina
13-0Actual: 22
Highest: 16 - Chris Dachille
Lowest: NR - Jon Wilner
286
Points
25Texas Tech
11-1Actual: 28
Highest: 21 - 2 Voters
Lowest: NR - 48 Voters
40
Points
Ranked Teams Not on Ballot: 24-Pittsburgh25-Dayton