Who's the new #1...?

Sunday, February 20, 2011

With #11 Purdue's convincing 76-63 Big Ten victory over #3 Ohio State at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette today, there is definetely going to be a new #1 team in college basketball this week.

How the Top 4 managed to go 1-1 this week...

#1 Kansas (25-2) went down to unranked Kansas State, 84-68, on the road Monday. The Jayhawks then evened out their week Saturday with an 89-63 win over visiting Colorado.

#2 Texas (23-4) took down the Oklahoma State Cowboys 73-55 on Wednesday. The Longhorns were brought back down to reality in the Big XII with a 70-67 loss at Nebraska (18-8).

#3 Ohio State (25-2) fought off a tough Michigan State squad for a 71-61 Tuesday night win. But, the Buckeyes were just schooled by the Boilers in today's 76-63 meeting in West Lafayette.

#4 Pittsburgh (24-3) beat South Florida earlier this week 67-55. Yesterday, they saw their possibility of jumping to #1 thrown back in their face by St. John's, 60-59 at Madison Square Garden. Dwight Hardy drove the right baseline and went up and under with a floating layup with 1.2 seconds left to give St. John's the huge upset.

The questions will remain this week. With all four teams in the Top 4 going 1-1, it might be up to one team as this week's game wind down.. #5 Duke (24-2) hosts Georgia Tech (11-14) tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The odds obviously favor the Blue Devils in this one, but Paul Hewitt's club could come to Durham and surprise everyone. The isn't going to happen. Duke seems like they're going to just cruise right back into the #1 slot this week with tonight's win over the Yellow Jackets.

That's most likely what's going to happen. There are people that love Duke or they hate Duke, bottom line. With an umblemished week, who else would slide into the #1 ranking, aside from Duke??

Thoughts on this...let me know!!