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College Basketball Rankings January 18: Chaos

After 15 of 25 teams in the top 25 lose there is mass chaos this week.

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Last week was nuts for the top 25. A total of 15 of 25 ranked teams lost at least one game. West Virginia very nearly beat No. 1 and No. 2 int he same week. Michigan State and Miami both lost twice as top 10 teams. Of the 10 teams that survived unscathed, two were in the Big Ten and Iowa (also Indiana, since they were in one poll and not the other).

In the coaches pol Purdue moves up two spots to No. 22:

1 Oklahoma 15-1 763 26 2 1 1/8
2 North Carolina 16-2 727 4 5 3 1/11
3 Kansas 15-2 700 1 1 -2 1/7
4 Villanova 16-2 674 0 7 3 6/17
5 Maryland 16-2 629 0 3 -2 2/9
6 Xavier 16-1 616 0 8 2 6/NR
7 West Virginia 15-2 585 0 10 3 10/23
8 Texas A&M 15-2 532 0 14 6 14/NR
9 Iowa 14-3 494 0 19 10 19/NR
10 Michigan St 16-3 461 0 4 -6 1/13
11 Arizona 15-3 438 0 16 5 6/16
12 Duke 14-4 360 0 6 -6 3/12
13 Virginia 13-4 340 0 11 -2 4/12
14 Miami-Florida 13-3 319 0 9 -5 9/NR
15 Baylor 14-3 306 0 22 7 14/25
16 Louisville 14-3 288 0 20 4 15/NR
17 Providence 15-3 269 0 12 -5 9/NR
18 South Carolina 16-1 231 0 15 -3 15/NR
19 Kentucky 13-4 206 0 13 -6 1/13
20 Pittsburgh 15-2 179 0 17 -3 17/NR
21 Iowa St. 13-4 173 0 18 -3 2/18
22 Purdue 15-3 167 0 24 2 8/24
23 Indiana 15-3 162 0 25 2 14/NR
24 Butler 13-4 156 0 23 -1 10/NR
25 Southern California 15-3 103 0 28 3

Purdue also moves up to No. 22 in the AP Poll:

1
Oklahoma (65)
Record: 15-1
PV Rank
2
Points
1,625
2
Record: 16-2
5
1,515
3
Record: 15-2
1
1,499
4
Record: 16-2
6
1,403
5
Record: 16-1
7
1,321
6
Record: 15-2
11
1,278
7
Record: 16-2
3
1,259
8
10
1,179
9
Record: 14-3
16
1,167
10
Record: 15-2
15
994
11
Record: 16-3
4
950
12
Record: 15-3
18
801
13
Record: 13-4
13
649
13
Record: 14-3
22
649
15
Record: 13-3
8
645
16
Record: 15-3
12
609
17
Record: 14-3
21
608
18
Record: 13-4
23
439
19
Record: 13-4
17
411
20
Record: 14-4
9
375
21
Record: 15-3
26
338
22
Record: 15-3
24
322
23
Record: 13-4
14
276
24
Record: 16-1
19
252
25
Record: 15-3
27
210