School basketball rankings: Purdue holds at No. 5 regardless of loss, UCLA drops in coaches ballot after 2-0 week

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Voters on this week’s Coaches Ballot dropped UCLA a spot to No. 4, even supposing the Bruins clinched the Pac-12 title with highway wins over Utah and Colorado final week whereas extending their profitable streak to eight video games. At 25-4 (16-2 Pac-12), UCLA owns the nation’s eighth-longest profitable streak, however that was not sufficient for the Bruins to fend off Kansas within the ballot because the Jayhawks (24-5, 12-4 Huge 12) jumped a spot to No. 3.KU beat TCU and West Virginia final week, barely scraping previous the Mountaineers at residence.

In the meantime, Purdue stayed put at No. 5 within the Coaches Ballot even after a 79-71 residence loss to Indiana which marked the Boilermakers’ fourth loss in six video games.

Kansas State rose 5 spots to No. 11 this week after beating Baylor and Oklahoma State to get again on monitor. The Wildcats (22-7, 10-6 Huge 12) have gained three straight to show their legitimacy as soon as once more after a stretch of 4 losses in 5 video games in the course of the coronary heart of Huge 12 play.

On the spectrum’s different finish, Virginia plummeted six spots to No. 12 after losses at Boston School and North Carolina. The Cavaliers suffered the largest fall this week, whereas No. 15 Miami and No. 23 Creighton additionally dropped 4 spots.

Iowa State, Northwestern and NC State have been amongst these falling out of the ballot whereas No. 22 TCU, No. 24 Maryland and No. 25 Pittsburgh entered to exchange them. .