The top of the men’s college basketball landscape has been flipped on its head in the last 48 hours.
Four of the nation’s top five teams in the most recent AP poll lost in two days, all to unranked teams. Some of the upsets weren’t so surprising, like the Houston Cougars taking their first loss at Hilton Coliseum to the Iowa State Cyclones. Others, like the Kansas Jayhawks getting tripped up by a UCF Knights team fresh off a 25-point loss to the Kansas State Wildcats, were more shocking. In all, it made for a historic stretch of results. According to Fox Sports Research, it’s the first time in college basketball history that four top-five teams have lost in such a short period of time. And here’s the common thread that connects them: All four losses were road games for the ranked team.
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