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| File: 15-1 | Final week: 1. The Jayhawks held on to first after getting back from their second straight house run and a double-digit house deficit, solely to show that loss right into a win because of an 18-4 shutout run in opposition to Oklahoma. Allen Fieldhouse has a novel charlatan who lives inside its partitions. Kansas’ 79-75 victory Tuesday night time put them 4-0 in Huge 12 playoffs for the primary time since 2017. The Jayhawks prolonged their house dominance over Oklahoma to a 22-game profitable streak. Furthermore, KU received at the least 15 of their first 16 video games for the seventh time below Invoice Self. |
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| File: 14-2 | Final week: 3. Adem Bona will get higher by the week, which is why UCLA ensures love No. 2 — and the next rating right here than wherever else you may discover. A senior, Bona averaged 11.0 factors, 6.3 rebounds and a pair of.3 blocks in his final three factors for UCLA. UCLA hosts Utah on Thursday. The Utes are a fringe NCAA Match crew halfway by means of the season making an attempt to slide from a five-game shedding streak to the Bruins. As acknowledged within the court docket’s report issued on WednesdayUCLA is the one crew within the Huge Six conferences to reside as much as its preseason hype. |
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| File: 17-1 | Final week: 4. Garras Walker missed Houston’s victory Wednesday over South Florida, however the spectacular former five-star prospect from 6-foot-8 for the Cougars scored 44 factors in Houston’s two earlier video games: wins over SMU and in Cincinnati. He was the CBS Sports activities/USBWA Freshman of the Week, And though he is out of the highest 5 freshmen nationally in the meanwhileWalker is a prime 10 fush in faculty hoops with the potential to maneuver up shortly. |
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| File: 14-2 | Final week: 6. The Crimson Tide by no means bought the primary seed of their historical past, however that may very well be over in a few months. After an 84-69 win in Arkansas Wednesday night time, Nate Oats’ crew claimed maybe the perfect pair of highway wins (Houston being the opposite) within the nation. The one drawback: The umpires on the Bud Walton Enviornment final night time had been overindulged and distorted a Prime 15 match. |
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| File: 14-2 | Final week: 5. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how Tennessee defends the three-point line within the again half this season, as a result of though the Vols are an ideal defensive group, what is going on on now’s weird. Tennessee holds opponents to twenty.9% 3-point accuracy, which might, by far, be an NCAA report. (Norfolk State allowed 25.3% in 2004-05.) That quantity is simply going to develop, and the query is: Has any crew shot 35% 3 factors in a sport in opposition to UT this season? |
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| File: 15-1 | final week 7. Boilermakers – The primary merchandise of the court docket’s report on Wednesday – They’re now anticipated to win the Huge Ten title by three video games, which does not appear unreasonable given how a lot the remainder of the league has been shut out. Significantly, go test it out. Who is corporate No. 2-4? It is a shuffle proper now, and Purdue is approach above that scrimmage. |
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| File: 15-1 | Final week: 11. The Wildcats made it to the AP Polls report this week. By no means has a crew gone this season (after New 12 months’s Day) unranked, solely to make its first season look within the AP Prime 25 and be as excessive as eleventh, which is the place Okay-State now sits. There are a couple of nominees for Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in mid-January, however all are second solely to Jerome Tang in the meanwhile. |
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| File: 14-3 | final week: 12. You’ll have missed it, however Gonzaga (13) is correct behind Sainte-Marie-V KenPom.com For the primary time since December 2017. Not solely that, however the 14-4 Gaels are all the way in which ranked ninth on this metric. Virtually nobody pays consideration to the Gaels. These rivals will not conflict till early February. Gonzaga enters the bustling Marriott Heart Thursday for his sport at BYU. |
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| File: 13-2 | Final week: 13. The Hurricanes have received six in a row and are 4-0 within the Huge 12. It’s the first time since 2000 that ISU has began this properly on the convention ledger. I ready for the large sport this weekend with a visit to Kansas. Because the Huge 12 has a streaming portion of the rights package deal with the Huge 12, this is your warning that the Clones-Jayhawks will likely be an ESPN+-only viewing possibility this weekend. |
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| File: 14-2 | Final week: 2. I feel the Wildcats’ 13-point house loss in opposition to . 500-under Washington State final weekend is the strangest results of the season. There’s completely no motive for a wholesome Arizona crew to drop a double-digit sport at house to a crew that will not be within the NIT. Tommy Lloyd’s crew performs Oregon Colleges on the highway this weekend. Arizona would attempt to keep away from having consecutive 70-point video games for under the second time in Lloyd’s tenure. |
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| File: 14-3 | Final week: 14. What we’ve got right here is the perfect situation conceivable for followers of Xavier’s first yr with Sean Miller. The X received 90-87 Wednesday in an exciting sport over Creighton, holding Windfall as one of many two undefeated groups in a convention sport on the prime of the Huge East standings. Winners 10 in a row, the Muskies have not misplaced since November. That is Xavier’s longest profitable streak since 2017-18, the yr of the highest seed in this system. Subsequent up is a terrific house mile on Sunday 14-4 in opposition to Marquette. |
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| File: 17-1 | Final week: 16. The Cougars cannot cease profitable. On Wednesday, the most important sport of the center of the week got here on the final shot, as Charleston held on to a rating of 71-69. Nonetheless, predictive measures are nonetheless not out there. Cougars get up on the morning of the 79th in Sagarin, the 79th in Kinbaum, and the 56th within the Parttorvik place. When all pre-season biases are faraway from these rankings. Greater than something, this crew has realized how you can win shut quarters, which is a ability to make sure of. |
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| File: 14-3 | Final week: 18. The brothers rightfully proceed to steer, contemplating that they haven’t misplaced since November. The nine-match collection might cease on Saturday; The highway in opposition to the determined Creighton awaits. Jared Bynum, who was anticipated to be the principle PC participant this season, missed the St. John’s win with an stomach damage and was not scheduled for the weekend. It will be troublesome to attain a highway victory with out it. |
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| File: 14-2 | Final week: Nr. The Longhorns had been my final crew out of Hey Nineteen per week in the past. After a 10-point restoration highway win over Oklahoma State and an 18-point comeback at house in opposition to TCU, the Longhorns simply bought again to the occasion. It has been a tricky few days for Horned Frogs followers; TCU’s loss on Wednesday in Austin marked the forty sixth time this system has misplaced on the highway to a prime 10 crew. He by no means wins on this situation. |
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| File: 14-4 | Final week: Nr. Shaka Sensible modified one thing vital in Marquette’s offense. CJ Moore of The Athletic lately did an in depth investigation on how to do that, And I counsel you to test it out (Nonetheless). After holding MU 82-76 by UConn Wednesday night time, the Golden Eagles improved to 3rd in factors per possession nationally, the perfect (up to now) of Sensible’s 14 years as a head coach. |
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| File: 14-2 | Final week: 15. The Hurricanes had no drawback serving Boston School on Wednesday night time, hitting 12 of 18 3-point makes an attempt, the primary time since February 27, 2016, that The U have shot at the least 66% from exterior the arc. I now keep in mind that Virginia (the highest crew from this week’s Energy Rankings) will end #1 and Miami will end #2 within the ACC. |
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| File: 15-3 | Final week: 10. It is powerful for many groups to carry on to their Hey Nineteen parking ticket after shedding three of 4, however a technique round that’s to be seeded within the prime three earlier than you lose three of 4, and B) all three of your losses come on the highway in opposition to The highest three groups in your convention. That is precisely what occurred to UConn, as the house win over Creighton blended up. The Huskies’ sport schedule lights up for the remainder of January. I count on one loss, max, of their subsequent six matches. |
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| File: 13-3 | Final week: Nr. The strongest three shedding streak of any crew with solely three losses is SDSU. Arizona, Arkansas and St. Mary’s are prime 20 groups, and the Aztecs have taken it on the chin for this trio in impartial environments. It has been over a month since shedding this set, however right here comes New Mexico who misplaced twice to Metropolis on Saturday. The winner of that match will doubtless get the suitable to return to that venue subsequent week. |
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| File: 15-1 | Final week: Nr. One of many higher middles on the market, the Owls saved their profitable streak alive by going 77-73 in extra time Wednesday night time in Miami to beat FIU. FAU’s 14 consecutive wins is second within the sport to Charleston’s 16. Moreover, this real-life crew is ranked forty fifth in KenPom, prime 35 in Torvik and prime 15 in Clear. What a season this has develop into in faculty hoops. FAU in my energy scores. what?! |
