College Basketball Rankings Week 4: Purdue Moves Up

The new college basketball rankings are out and Purdue has moved up after three wins last week. They moved up mostly because of other teams losing as opposed to what they did on the floor, but moving up is moving up. The Boilers are now 15 in the AP Poll, up two spots from last week:

1		Kentucky (40) SEC Record: 6-0	PV Rank 1 Points 1,590
2		Villanova (20) Big East Record: 6-0	2 1,567
3		North Carolina (4) ACC Record: 7-0	4 1,497
4		Kansas Big 12 Record: 5-1	5 1,414
5		Duke ACC Record: 6-1	6 1,365
6		Virginia ACC Record: 6-0	7 1,286
7		Xavier Big East Record: 6-0	9 1,181
8		Gonzaga West Coast Record: 6-0	11 1,112
9		Baylor (1) Big 12 Record: 6-0	20 1,068
10		Creighton Big East Record: 6-0	12 965
11		UCLA Pac-12 Record: 7-0	14 955
12		Saint Mary's (Cal) West Coast Record: 5-0	15 866
13		Indiana Big Ten Record: 4-1	3 857
14		Louisville ACC Record: 5-1	10 808
15		Purdue Big Ten Record: 5-1	17 687
16		Arizona Pac-12 Record: 5-1	8 655
17		Wisconsin Big Ten Record: 5-2	16 555
18		Butler Big East Record: 6-0	- 506
19		Iowa State Big 12 Record: 5-1	21 389
20		South Carolina SEC Record: 6-0	- 379
21		Rhode Island Atlantic 10 Record: 5-1	23 354
22		Syracuse ACC Record: 4-1	18 229
23		Oregon Pac-12 Record: 4-2	13 189
24		Florida SEC Record: 6-1	- 154
25		West Virginia Big 12 Record: 4-1	19 132

Purdue has another shot at a huge boost this week with a road game at No. 14 Louisville. You can't help but feel Purdue would be comfortably in the top 10 had it beaten Villanova. Butler is the biggest jumper this week, moving in at No. 18 after not being ranked last week. Indiana dropped 10 spots to No. 13.

In the coaches poll Purdue moves up from 19 to 16:

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