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The topsy turvy college basketball season continued this week with much of the BTPowerhouse Top 25’s middle dropping one or multiple games. The Big Ten’s overall depth has hurt the conference in the poll with many of the teams in the middle dropping due to tough conference road games.
Entered Poll
Seton Hall
Illinois
Arkansas
Dropped Out
Virginia
Arizona
Texas Tech
Biggest Rises
Wichita State +8
Dayton +7
San Diego State +7
West Virginia +7
Villanova +4
Biggest Falls
Ohio State -13
Penn State -10
Virginia -8
Michigan -4
Michigan State -4
1/27: BTPowerhouse Top 25 Poll
Rank | Team | Last Week's Ranking | This Week |
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Rank | Team | Last Week's Ranking | This Week |
1 | Baylor (17-1) | 1 | 1/29 at Iowa State, 2/1 TCU |
2 | Gonzaga (21-1) | 2 | 1/30 at Santa Clara, 2/1 at San Francisco |
3 | Kansas (16-3) | 3 | 1/27 at Oklahoma State, 2/1 Texas Tech |
4 | Louisville (17-3) | 5 | 1/29 at Boston College, 2/1 at NC State |
5 | Villanova (16-3) | 6 | 1/28 at St. John's, 2/1 Creighton |
6 | Florida State (17-2) | 4 | 1/28 at Virginia, 2/1 at Virginia Tech |
7 | San Diego State (21-0) | 8 | 1/29 at New Mexico, 2/1 Utah State |
8 | Dayton (18-2) | 7 | 1/29 at Duquesne, 2/1 Fordham |
9 | Oregon (17-4) | 10 | 1/30 at California, 2/1 at Stanford |
10 | Kentucky (15-4) | 11 | 1/29 Vanderbilt, 2/1 at Kentucky |
11 | Duke (16-3) | 12 | 1/28 Pittsburgh, 2/1 at Syracuse |
12 | Michigan State (15-5) | 9 | 1/29 Northwestern, 2/1 at Wisconsin |
13 | Seton Hall (15-4) | 16 | 1/29 DePaul, 2/1 Xavier |
14 | Auburn (15-2) | 14 | 1/28 at Ole Miss, 2/1 Kentucky |
15 | Maryland (16-4) | 17 | 1/30 Iowa |
16 | West Virginia (16-3) | 18 | 1/29 at Texas Tech, 2/1 Kansas State |
17 | Illinois (15-5) | 20 | 1/30 Minnesota, 2/2 at Iowa |
18 | Butler (16-4) | 15 | 1/28 at Georgetown, 2/1 Providence |
19 | Iowa (14-5) | 22 | 1/27 Wisconsin, 1/30 at Maryland |
20 | Houston (16-4) | 21 | 1/29 at East Carolina, 2/1 at Cincinnati |
21 | Colorado (16-4) | 23 | 1/30 at UCLA, 2/1 at USC |
22 | Arizona (13-6) | 19 | 1/30 at Washington, 2/1 at Washington State |
23 | Penn State (14-5) | 25 | 1/29 Indiana, 2/1 at Nebraska |
24 | LSU (15-4) | NR | 1/29 Alabama, 2/1 Ole Miss |
25 | Rutgers (15-5) | 24 | 1/28 Purdue, 2/1 Michigan (neutral) |