Those teams are each outside the top dozen in Monday’s newly released Week 6 AP Top 25, a poll that has been a surprisingly accurate tool when predicting men’s college basketball’s eventual national champion. The past 21 national champions and 35 of the past 36 were each ranked in the top 12 in their respective season's Week 6 AP poll.

Arizona gets another big test in its first game at No. 1 this season when it faces No. 12 Alabama on Saturday in Birmingham, Alabama, in the C.

The Huskies, No. 5 in Tuesday's Top 25 And 1, take on the Gators in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden

The Texas Tech Red Raiders are sending a loud message to the rest of the country. They just rolled past the previously unbeaten LSU Tigers with an 82–58 victory

It’s a big jump from No. 10 to 1, but Iowa State did run the nation’s top-ranked team right out of its own gym. The 23-point victory over Purdue matched the largest road win against a No. 1 team in NCAA history, a mark fist set by No. 15 Villanova with its 96-73 win over No. 1 UConn in 1995. “It was an avalanche,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said.