{"id":453680,"date":"2026-11-11T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/453680\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:18:17","slug":"college-basketball-power-rankings-florida-opens-at-no-1-michigan-state-uconn-make-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/453680\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Power Rankings: Florida opens at No. 1; Michigan State, UConn make statements"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a full week of games and some ranked-on-ranked marquee matchups, here are CBS Sports’ first college basketball power rankings<\/p>\n

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Nov 11, 2026<\/p>\n

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5 min read<\/p>\n

Tuesday marked the first time in the last 20 years that multiple teams ranked inside the top three of the AP Top 25 poll suffered wire-to-wire losses on the same day. No. 2 Duke lost to No. 5 Michigan State<\/a> in the Champions Classic and No. 3 Illinois<\/a> couldn’t rally down the stretch against No. 16 Texas Tech<\/a> after trailing by as many as 20 points in the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Illinois and Duke<\/a> became the second and third teams ranked inside the top-five to lose a game this season, joining previous No. 5 Arizona<\/a>. The Wildcats lost to UCLA<\/a> on opening night in Las Vegas last week and dropped to No. 12 in the AP Top 25 poll<\/a> as a result. When the AP poll comes out next week, Illinois and Duke will drop.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the AP poll, but rather weekly power rankings to assess who is doing well and whose stock is taking a hit. The biggest winners from Tuesday’s action: Michigan State, Texas Tech and Vanderbilt<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those three teams all picked up huge wins and moved up in the first CBS Sports power rankings.<\/p>\n

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College basketball winners, losers: Big early deficits doom No. 3 Illinois in loss at Texas Tech, No. 2 Duke<\/p>\n

\n Cameron Salerno <\/p>\n

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Let’s dive into the rankings, starting with Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n

College Basketball Power Rankings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a full week of games and some ranked-on-ranked marquee matchups, here are CBS Sports’ first college basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[142235,175912,2531,175916,2527,2532,2534,6791,175907,59219,175918,24258,175914,8294,63806,24887,2513,91599,2516,28,2530,30,29,3731,175917,2535,2514,2523,175920,175909,175911,60956,2524,2529,73648,2515,4657,6784,4641,7642,78229,2520,175919,24613,175915,175910,2519,175913,175908,2518,2533,6792,2526,48198,108196,2528,10254,4682,60292],"class_list":["post-453680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-acaden-lewis","tag-ace-glass","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-alijah-arenas","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-baylor-bears","tag-braylon-mullins","tag-bucknell-bison","tag-cal-poly-mustangs","tag-chattanooga-mocs","tag-chicago-state-cougars","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-power-rankings","tag-college-basketball-rankings","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-david-mirkovic","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-gardner-webb-bulldogs","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-houston-cougars","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-iona-gaels","tag-jeremy-fears-jr","tag-jordan-smith-jr","tag-jt-toppin","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-la-salle-explorers","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-memphis-tigers","tag-miami-fla-hurricanes","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-st-spartans","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-morehead-state-eagles","tag-north-florida-ospreys","tag-northern-arizona-lumberjacks","tag-obinna-ekezie-jr","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-quinn-ellis","tag-silas-demary-jr","tag-st-johns-red-storm","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tyler-tanner","tag-tyran-stokes","tag-ucla-bruins","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-virginia-cavaliers","tag-wichita-state-shockers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}