LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Week 2 of the college basketball season didn’t just shuffle the deck, it moved the dealer. At least in my case, it did.

The instructions are to base your ballot on performance, not your estimate of how good teams are. Early in the season, that can mean some pretty wide swings as teams pile up good wins.

This past week is a perfect example.

Purdue walks into Alabama and wins. Houston slips out of Birmingham with a one-point win over Auburn. Arizona adds a win over UCLA to its earlier win over Florida. UConn picks off BYU in a top-10 matchup. And Duke — last week’s No. 1 on my ballot — doesn’t lose, but still wakes up at No. 5.

That’s the deal when you’re trying to reward what teams have done. If you build a better résumé in a given week, you can jump somebody who staye

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