Analyzing an Analysts Top 25: Jay Bilas' Odd Rankings

Each week ESPN releases their very own weekly power poll, and each week Jay Bilas' selections seem to drift further into madness.

Bilas is probably the premiere analyst on ESPN so I'm not quite sure how to explain this very odd occurrence.

I would expect such things from Dick Vitale, who amazes me each week just by the fact that he's able to rank any teams beyond Duke and North Carolina.  I look at it as a personal victory for Dickie V whenever Duke isn't occupying the top spot, because I can only imagine the torture he goes through casting a vote for someone else.

Nevertheless, I am at a loss to explain the logic Jay Bilas must use to post his rankings. 

North Carolina loses to Boston College, a far inferior team, and they retain the top spot.  I can certainly understand the logic behind leaving North Carolina in the top spot because even after the loss to Boston College it's easy to still consider UNC the favorite to win it all.

UNC loses to Wake Forest, an understandable loss by anyone's definition, and it's time for them to give up the top spot.  In fact they fell all the way to No. 4. 

I guess it may fall under a cumulative effect, but if losing to Boston College isn't enough to make UNC fall, why would losing to a tremendously talented Wake Forest team knock you out of the top spot.  What flaws were exposed by Wake Forest that were not evident against a mediocre Boston College team.

In yet another noteworthy moment of madness UConn gets torched by Georgetown on their home court and drops only six spots for Jay Bilas.  Syracuse gets torched by Georgetown in D.C. and they drop from twelve to outside the top 25.  It really just doesn't add up.

In the end the AP and Coaches poll mean very little, and polls by ESPN's analysts mean even less.  I just expected a bit more from Jay Bilas.