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College Basketball Rankings January 4: Purdue Drops

We have the first poll of 2016.

Marc Lebryk-USA TODAY Sports

Purdue's home collapse against Iowa likely cost it a shot at cracking the top 10 again. Butler lost twice and a pair of wins to start B1G play could have been enough to move up. Instead, we see Iowa jump into the poll. First, here is the coaches poll:

RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS 1st Place Votes Prev CHANGE Hi/Low
1 Oklahoma 12-0 781 20 2 1 1/8
2 Kansas 12-1 769 11 3 1 2/7
3 Maryland 13-1 732 0 4 1 2/9
4 Virginia 12-1 698 0 5 1 4/12
5 Michigan St 14-1 676 1 1 -4 1/13
6 Arizona 13-1 618 0 7 1 6/14
7 North Carolina 13-2 592 0 8 1 1/11
8 Kentucky 11-2 526 0 11 3 1/11
9 Providence 14-1 509 0 13 4 9/NR
10 Duke 12-2 487 0 12 2 3/12
11 Miami-Florida 12-1 444 0 15 4 11/NR
12 Xavier 13-1 442 0 6 -6 6/NR
13 Villanova 12-2 434 0 16 3 6/17
14 Iowa St. 11-2 402 0 9 -5 2/14
15 West Virginia 12-1 350 0 17 2 14/23
16 Louisville 12-2 282 0 18 2 15/NR
17 Texas A&M 11-2 265 0 19 2 17/NR
18 Purdue 13-2 248 0 14 -4 8/24
19 Butler 11-3 238 0 10 -9 10/NR
20 South Carolina 13-0 232 0 20 0 20/NR
21 Pittsburgh 12-1 121 0 25 4 21/NR
22 Gonzaga 12-3 112 0 24 2 11/24
23 Iowa 11-3 110 0 NR 0 23/NR
24 Connecticut 10-3 81 0 26 2 21/NR
25 Baylor 10-3 61 0 21 -4 14/25

Purdue drops 4 spots after losing to Iowa. The Hawkeyes themselves have a beef as beating two top 15 teams in 4 days only gets them to No. 23. Purdue's best win, Pittsburgh, moves up to No. 21.

Now here is the AP Poll, where Purdue dropped 6 spots to 20.

1
Kansas (44)
Record: 12-1
PV Rank
2
Points
1,598
2
Oklahoma (21)
Record: 12-0
3
1,574
3
Record: 13-1
4
1,459
4
Record: 12-1
5
1,409
5
Record: 14-1
1
1,400
6
Record: 13-2
7
1,275
7
Record: 13-1
8
1,126
8
Record: 14-1
12
1,108
9
Record: 11-2
10
1,039
10
Record: 13-1
6
1,001
11
Record: 12-2
16
979
12
Record: 12-1
13
921
13
Record: 11-2
11
844
14
Record: 12-2
15
830
15
17
731
16
Record: 12-2
18
568
17
Record: 12-1
19
558
18
Record: 11-3
9
516
19
Record: 11-3
36
456
20
Record: 13-2
14
450
21
Record: 11-2
20
420
22
Record: 13-0
24
286
23
26
107
24
Record: 12-1
29
103
25
Record: 9-6
26
51