The final day of 2022 provided two unbelievable and filled with drama Faculty Soccer Playoff Video games. Congratulations to Georgia and TCU. Their wins over Ohio State and Michigan, respectively, dominated the sports activities dialog, deservedly so.
However it was additionally an important day of faculty basketball.
From late morning till New 12 months’s Eve, there was one enjoyable recreation after one other – Xavier’s amongst them. 83-73 win over UConn that knocked Dan Hurley’s Huskies off the undefeated checklist and within the up to date Sunday morning CBS Sports activities High 25 And 1 every day basketball rankings, the place Purdue stays No. 1 for the 22nd straight day.
UConn is now No. three — simply behind the no. 2 Houston and simply forward of No. four Arizona and No. 5 Kansas. For my part, these 4 colleges, at this level, may moderately be positioned in any order. However I believe these are the 4 colleges that ought to comply with Purdue when the Related Press High 25 ballot updates on Monday, and I believe they are going to.
Actually, I had a tough time deciding what to do with #26.
There are many smart choices — amongst them Kansas State, Auburn, West Virginia, Marquette, Florida Atlantic and Iowa State. However I opted to provide that spot to Jamie Dixon’s TCU Horned Frogs, who’re 12-1 and on a 10-game successful streak after Saturday’s 67-61 win over Texas Tech. Yeah, I do know, TCU has one terrible loss on its resume — particularly a 64-63 loss to Northwestern State that qualifies as a loss in Quadrant four. Rattling. However the circumstances surrounding that loss ought to matter, and the circumstances are that TCU performed that recreation with out main scorer Mike Miles Jr. and third main scorer Damian Baugh. In different phrases, the Horned Frogs had been lacking two massive items from that contest. If he had them, and even simply one in every of them, it is affordable to imagine TCU would nonetheless be undefeated like Purdue and New Mexico.