College basketball rankings: Arizona moves into top 25 and 1 after beating Utah in 3-overtime thriller
Only one Pac-12 school is in the CBS Sports Top 25 and No. 1 daily college basketball rankings in this final year of the league, as we know. UCLA has been a mess most of the time this season. USC is worse. The result is that the Pac-12 is registering as the sport’s sixth-best conference with just five weeks remaining before Selection Sunday.
However, it is not all bad.
there are Some? Good teams. And the two of them produced an instant-classic late Thursday night, a triple-overtime thriller that took 55 minutes to decide.
Final score: Arizona 105, Utah 99.
Tommy Lloyd’s Wildcats had a 16-point lead at halftime, but they wasted it all and actually trailed in the final minutes of regulation and during the first OT period before using a 9–0 run in the third overtime. Went and made the sixth record. Quadrant 1 Victory.
“We made one or two small adjustments in the third overtime,” Lloyd said.
With the win, Arizona moved up to No. 7 in Friday morning’s updated Top 25 and 1, which pushed Kansas and Dayton down one spot each, through no fault of their own. The Wildcats are 18-5 overall and 9-3 in the Pac-12 with eight regular season games remaining. They are one game ahead of Washington State and Oregon in the Pac-12 standings with both home games remaining on the schedule. That’s why Arizona is projected to ultimately win the league by several games, giving Lloyd a second conference championship in his third year as head coach after spending the previous 22 seasons as an assistant at Gonzaga.
