College Basketball Rankings: December 18

After another win Purdue now has six victories agaisnt teams in the top 60 of the KenPom rankings. No one else in the country has more than four. We came close to gaining ground in the traditional polls with Gonzaga, Kansas, and Xavier all pulling of late wins to avoid huge upsets to North Dakota, Nebraska, and East Tennessee State, respectively.

Purdue continues to play great basketball and is in the top 10 of most computer polls. We’ll also likely be 15-2 headed to Michigan in January. Will it be enough to be in the top 10 by then? We’ll see. Here is this week’s AP Poll.

1. Villanova (45) 1,602
2. Michigan State (15) 1,560
3. Arizona State (5) 1,429
4. Duke 1,390
5. North Carolina 1,332
6. Miami (FL) 1,308
7. Kentucky 1,231
8. Texas A&M 1,156
9. Xavier 1,073
10. West Virginia 1,040
11. Wichita State 851
12. Gonzaga 831
13. Virginia 796
14. Kansas 791
15. TCU 789
16. Purdue 706
17. Oklahoma 691
18. Baylor 396
19. Arizona 396
20. Cincinnati 314
21. Texas Tech 308
22. Tennessee 308
23. Seton Hall 223
24. Florida State 164
25. Creighton 144

Purdue only moved up one spot thanks to Seton Hall losing to Rutgers. The aforementioned three teams that barely survived either stayed even or moved up. Also, there were strangely ties for 18th and 21st.

Here is the coaches poll:

1. Villanova (26) 794
2. Michigan State (6) 765
3. Duke 676
4. Arizona State 654
5. North Carolina 654
6. Kentucky 636
7. Miami (FL) 590
8. Xavier 540
9. Texas A&M 536
10. West Virginia 508
11. Wichita State 449
12. TCU 418
13. Kansas 404
14. Virginia 387
15. Gonzaga 357
16. Purdue 353
17. Oklahoma 300
18. Baylor 210
19. Arizona 199
20. Tennessee 140
21. Texas Tech 129
22. Seton Hall 126
23. Cincinnati 126
24. Creighton 115
25. Florida State 103