Clayton Paino

Clayton, the cousins are still together: you, Jeff Hamilton, Nicholas Owen and Scott Hollingshead all sit at 198 and 160th, three points down on the week after Oregon won and fell from No. 2 to No. 6 anyway. Virginia, your stronger unranked candidate, got in at No. 25, and Penn State climbed to 16th, but the twelve Oregon gave back outweighed both.

James Madison drew four votes, which for a nine-entry pick is a heartbeat, and hosts Wagner on Saturday. Florida sits on 83 votes. Oregon goes to Oklahoma State needing to look like a No. 2 again, and Louisville, which lost and somehow kept 24th, hosts Villanova on Friday. Whichever of the four cousins finds a point first leaves the group.