A look at the possible Top 25 college basketball rankings after Kansas and Maryland lost on Tuesday
There were a number of high-quality college basketball matchups on Tuesday night, but no one could have predicted just how crazy things would get. The night started off with the No. 1-ranked Kansas Jayhawks getting handled by the West Virginia Mountaineers and only continued to get crazier with the Miami Hurricanes losing to the Virginia Cavaliers, the Maryland Terrapins falling to the Michigan Wolverines, and the Iowa State Cyclones getting topped by the Texas Longhorns.
With all of those ranked teams losing to either ranked or unranked opponents on Tuesday night, there is certainly going to be a major shakeup in the next set of rankings, including a new No. 1 team. Here’s how those Top 25 college basketball ranking could look after Tuesday’s events:
- Oklahoma Sooners
- Michigan State Spartans
- North Carolina Tar Heels
- West Virginia Mountaineers
- Kansas Jayhawks
- Villanova Wildcats
- Xavier Musketeers
- Duke Blue Devils
- SMU Mustangs
- Maryland Terrapins
- Providence Friars
- Virginia Cavaliers
- Miami Hurricanes
- Kentucky Wildcats
- Texas A&M Aggies
- Iowa Hawkeyes
- Arizona Wildcats
- South Carolina Gamecocks
- Louisville Cardinals
- Pittsburgh Panthers
- Baylor Bears
- Butler Bulldogs
- Purdue Boilermakers
- Gonzaga Bulldogs
- Indiana Hoosiers
As you can see, Kansas stays in the top-five, but are hurdled by the West Virginia team that beat them and thus proved themselves to voters. Subsequently, Maryland’s loss to Michigan knocks them almost out of the Top 10 and Iowa State’s fourth loss of the year to an unranked Texas team takes them out of the rankings entirely.
We’ll see how these match up with the actual rankings when they come out and after the inevitable craziness still to ensue over the rest of the week.