Feb. 2: VA Top Five

Every Monday during the college basketball regular season, SLANTblog offers its new Virginia Top Five. This feature ranks what seem at the moment to be the best five teams from among the 14 Division I men's programs in the Commonwealth.

SLANTblog's VA Top Five

1. Va. Tech (14-7, 4-3 in ACC, No. 41 RPI)
2. VCU (16-6, 9-2 in CAA, No. 61 RPI)
3. Mason (15-6, 8-3 in CAA, No. 62 RPI)
4. VMI (17-3, 8-1 in Big South, No. 114 RPI)
5. UVa. (7-10, 1-5 in ACC, No. 106 RPI)

Over the last week Tech dropped two, VCU and Mason went one-and-one and UVa. lost its only game. VMI won without a loss.

-- RPI numbers from RealTime RPI, as of 10.00 a.m. Monday.