NCAA Basketball: Oregon and Purdue on wrong side of winners/losers this week
By Adam Childs
NCAA Basketball teams are starting to take shape as we reach the end of the first month of the season. Who were the big winners and losers of week number 4?
It seems like the NCAA Basketball season just started and we are already a month into the season. The Big Ten has already started conference games and the Thanksgiving week tournaments are passed us. Soon all conferences will be deep into their conference schedules and we will be talking about if the NET rankings are still a good idea.
This past week saw some teams solidify their spot near the top and others have shown themselves as pretenders. Questions are starting to be asked about who could beat who and what teams really do not belong near the top. We had a memorable ACC/Big Ten Challenge that ended with a great post-game press conference with Roy Williams.
The Big Ten showed they belong and Duke again showed that they are special when they are clicking. The Pac-12 is still trying to find their footing and the Big East showed they do have a pulse.
After a great week let’s take a look at who the biggest winners and losers were.