The Oklahoma Sooners are the latest No. 1 team in college basketball to lose and Twitter had some thoughts
Apparently being the No. 1-ranked team in college basketball is the worst thing that can happen to teams right now. No. 1s have been dropping like flies over the past few weeks. The same can be said again on Monday night as the newly minted No. 1 team in the country in the Oklahoma Sooners went on the road and fell to the Iowa State Cyclones.
It wasn’t a huge upset as Georges Niang and the Cyclones were actually favored on their home court and have proven to be a high-quality basketball team already this season on a number of occasions. Moreover, it was a fantastic contest between the two Big 12 giants that went down to the final seconds before Iowa State pulled out the win.
Even worse for the Sooners, their ranking atop the polls didn’t even last a full 24 hours before they were knocked off. It’s a rough time to be No. 1 and everyone on Twitter took notice as they had plenty of things to say on the social media platform after the Oklahoma loss:
The No. 1 ranking is a hot potato. In order: UNC, Kentucky, Michigan State, Kansas, Oklahoma all had it, faltered. Who's next?
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) January 19, 2016
Oklahoma's basketball team is made up of 1 person not 5
— Caleb Finnegan (@Cpt_Finn) January 19, 2016
Still a very, very, very good team
Oklahoma is the kind of team Syracuse upsets in the tourney.
— CuseColtsYanks (@PaulieG07) January 19, 2016
oklahoma is lookin shakeyyy babyyy
— Ramon Sanchez (@Sanchez03_) January 19, 2016
No one is going to class at Iowa state tomorrow
— Jessie Lyons (@Jess1ofAKind5) January 19, 2016
Oklahoma's consensus first place ranking lasts all of 10 hours. They will hold it for a week but WOW #OUvsISU
— Neil Dalal (@NeilDalal96) January 19, 2016
Boy were those voters wrong in unanimously picking oklahoma as #1 team
— Kermit (@RealJimisSlim) January 19, 2016
Oklahoma always taking Ls.
— Nathan Gomez (@Nate_Gomez17) January 19, 2016
Aye North Carolina is #1 again. Thanks Iowa State.
— Dylan Hager (@DeusRego) January 19, 2016
Iowa State rushed?? Lame af
— Crowd Goes Mild (@slygirl_92) January 19, 2016
This is the first time Iowa State has beat a #1 team since 1957???? LOLOLOLOL
— casey (@camp1015) January 19, 2016
Iowa State trying to get back into the Big 12 race like "It's not over, Brother!" pic.twitter.com/7jOqBs0srP
— Myron Medcalf (@MedcalfByESPN) January 19, 2016
The Cyclones certainly are running wild, brother. Then again, so is apparently any team facing off with No. 1 at this point.