1 Record: 23-2 | Last week: first. We’ve stood by over two months for Gonzaga to confront a genuine test on its timetable. That time has shown up. The Bulldogs play a street game against bubble group preeminent San Francisco on Thursday night, then, at that point, close out the ordinary season with a street slant against in-the-competition Saint Mary’s. Assuming the WCC is without a doubt going to get somewhere around three offers into the NCAAs, San Francisco pulling an irritated on Thursday night would essentially secure that. Last week: second. The Wildcats’ solitary outcome since last week’s Hey Nineteen was a captivating close home success over Oregon last Saturday, which came right around 12 hours after we learned Arizona was the No. 3 by and large group in the determination council’s positioning.

Because of Auburn losing soon thereafter, that implies Arizona is securely sitting with the second-best record in the game at the present time. Tommy Lloyd needs just three additional successes, more then likely, to turn into the third individual in his first season as a lead trainer to procure a No. Last week: fourth. The Jayhawks went out and about and succeeded at West Virginia, then, at that point, followed it up with a 102-83 home success against Kansas State. Charge Self’s group projects as a No. 1 seed, but it doesn’t have a main 40 point monitor in the country. Sort of wild. Even more justification for why Ochai Agbaji should be a First Team All-American at season’s end.

The Blue Devils have one misfortune since Jan. 18

the home loss to Virginia that was retaliated for Wednesday night with a 65-61 triumph over the Cavaliers. That result essentially booted Virginia’s weak at-large hopes. Uplifting news for Duke was that it won in spite of getting below average appearances from Paolo Banchero, Wendell Moore Jr. also Mark Williams. Duke will win its first independent ACC normal season title beginning around 2006. Accommodating it’s approaching in Mike Krzyzewski’s last season. 5 Record: 24-4 | Last week: seventh. No midweek games for the Boilermakers here. They nonchalantly beat Rutgers by 12 at home – – avenging that ringer mixer misfortune from December, recall – – and will confront a limping Michigan State crew in East Lansing on Saturday. Purdue is attached with Illinois and Wisconsin in the misfortune section on the Big Ten.

The No. 1 seed in the association competition might well get chosen next Tuesday, when Purdue goes to play at Bucky. Last week: sixth. The Wildcats were wrong in the principal half of their Wednesday night home win over LSU – – the Tigers have gone 4-8 in their beyond 12; it’s generally getting ceaselessly – – then, at that point, played with a misfortune late on account of some strangely messy play. They won 71-66. Bryce Hopkins transformed into the MVP for UK, scoring 13 focuses in the last part. Oscar Tshiebwe again was dependable: 17 focuses, 16 bounce back. 7 Record: 25-3 | Last week: third. A get-right game on Wednesday night got Auburn right: the Tigers beat Mississippi 77-64, and presently comes a roadie against Tennessee on Saturday. Against Ole Miss, Walker Kessler logged eight squares, giving him Auburn’s single-season record for smacks.

He’s at 127 and counting.Last week

eighth. The Red Raiders have won seven of their beyond eight, the main misfortune coming in to some degree unusual style: 15 focuses out and about against an Oklahoma group that is pitching itself out of NIT thought. TTU retaliated for that Oklahoma misfortune on Tuesday to the tune of 66-42. Obviously, Mark Adams’ group additionally went into Austin, Texas, over the course of the end of the week and cleared Chris Beard’s Longhorns. Without realizing what March will bring for this team, it’s actually reasonable to call this a fantasy season for Adams and Co. 9 Record: 22-5 | Last week: ninth The Badgers got a decent push Wednesday night from a Minnesota crew that began solid however has blurred back to preseason assumptions. It was a 68-67 success for Greg Gard’s group. Bucky has a street game against Rutgers this end of the prior week shutting the ordinary season with consecutive home games against Purdue and Nebraska. 10 Record: 23-5 | Last week: tenth. Somewhat subtle: Bears are positioned in the best five in various standard prescient measurements once more. Scott Drew’s group isn’t completely sound however it’s actually got perhaps the best record in the game and has faced the hardship a piece here. Baylor squeezed out an extra time succeed at Oklahoma State on Monday.

Next up is a humdinger: Kansas comes to Waco on Saturday. A Baylor win would keep the Jayhawks from securing a Big 12 title. Last week: twelfth. The Razorbacks’ just misfortune since Jan. 8 stopped by one against an Alabama group that is in the neighborhood of a No. 6 seed at this moment. Eric Musselman’s doing precisely what Arkansas fans had been sitting tight 20 years for: he’s made the program broadly important and kept them positioned in the surveys a larger number of weeks than not. 12 Record: 23-3 | Last week: thirteenth. I’m running out of words to portray Providence but then simultaneously I can’t quit discussing this group. It eradicated a 19-guide shortage out and about Sunday toward return and beat Butler, the biggest rebound of Ed Cooley’s profession. On Wednesday, you definitely know: triple additional time to beat Xavier 99-91 because of 27 focuses off the seat from Jared Bynum.