College Basketball Rankings March 5

Purdue won a pair of games in New York and reached the Big Ten Tournament final game for the second time in three years. Sure, the wins were not over Indiana and Ohio State like we hopes, but at least we avoided a “bad loss” to Rutgers and beat a decent Penn State team. The final did not go how we would have liked, but given that Purdue’s spot in the NCAAs as a 2 seed was pretty secure it was actually a rather stress free game. It was basically a glorified exhibition. Yeah, the loss sucked, but it was far from crippling.

We even see it in this week’s top 25 as Purdue dropped to No. 10 and Michigan jumped to No. 7.

1. Virginia (65) 1,625
2. Villanova 1,516
3. Xavier 1,510
4. Michigan State 1,346
5. Duke 1,340
6. Gonzaga 1,254
7. Michigan 1,231
8. Cincinnati 1,213
9. Kansas 1,129
10. Purdue 1,096
11. Wichita State 861
12. North Carolina 852
13. Tennessee 825
14. Texas Tech 784
15. Arizona 739
16. Auburn 692
17. Ohio State 603
18. West Virginia 486
19. Clemson 422
20. St. Mary’s 385
21. Houston 247
22. Nevada 218
23. Florida 192
24. Miami (FL) 191
25. Rhode Island 86

The coaches poll will be out shortly.