College basketball’s Feast Week is always chaotic, but this year’s action took things to another level. Five top-10 men’s teams in the previous week’s AP poll lost games, with four of those five dropping games to unranked opponents. UConn’s disastrous 0–3 trip to the Maui Invitational got most of the headlines, but Gonzaga losing to West Virginia, Houston falling to San Diego State and Alabama dropping a game to Oregon all were surprising results. And that’s not even mentioning brutal weeks for teams with high preseason expectations like Arizona, North Carolina and Creighton.
Which teams’ bad Thanksgiving weeks were an ominous sign for things to come and which will we look back on as a blip? Here’s a look at Sports Illustrated’s concern level for several top teams.
