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Record: 11-0 | Last week: 2. At this point, UConn has the resume and the look of the best team in college basketball. No. 1 team in multiple predictive metrics, including the wide-ranging Massey Composite. Dan Hurley’s not uncomfortable with long winning streaks. In 2017-18, his final year at Rhode Island, the Rams peeled off 16 straight. And in 2011-12, his final season at Wagner, the Seahawks had a span where they won 17 out of 18 games. Unlike those two spurts, this one is not signaling Hurley’s final season at this particular job.2
Record: 10-0 | Last week: 1. The Boilermakers are second here but No. 1 in this week’s AP Top 25, which completed a plot twist in the first six weeks of the season that had never happened before and something we might not see again for decades. Never before had a team gone from preseason No. 1 to unranked by Week 5 (UNC), but beyond that, never before had a team gone from unranked in the preseason to No. 1 in six weeks, as Purdue has done. Boiler fans are loving it, Tar Heel fans are frustrated, but these storyline surprises are exactly why I love college hoops. (And we should’ve given Matt Painter more credit in the preseason.)3
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