The Associated Press Top 25 rankings for Week 4 of the college basketball season are hot off the press and chock full of winners and losers.
Things were pretty sedated up top, but it was all sorts of topsy-turvy in the bottom half of the poll. With early-season tournaments playing out across the country, the top 12 teams from last week's poll went a combined 29-1 (sorry, North Carolina), but the bottom 13 teams churned out a record of 22-12.
As a result, five teams dropped out of the Top 25, including one (VCU) that was ranked No. 14 a week ago and one (Florida) that was ranked No. 8 two weeks back.
While teams ranked 13-25 were trying to play their way out of the poll, others receiving votes were painting masterpieces in the third week of the season.
Utah won three games by a combined 105 points to get back onto the AP's good side. Butler had a great showing in the Battle 4 Atlantis to become a ranked team, Maryland won the CBE Classic and Illinois won the Las Vegas Invitational to sneak into the Top 25. Others, like Northern Iowa, Providence, Washington and Oklahoma State, captured our attention but failed to quite earn a ranking this week.
However, new arrivals barely begin to scratch the surface of this week's biggest winners and losers.
from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/1wdJZsE
via IFTTT December 01, 2014 at 10:32AM
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