#1 Purdue, #3 Marquette, #7 Duke & #12 Kentucky All Fall to Unranked Opponents
We’re less than a week into December and the college basketball pollsters are having a rough go of things. Another weekend and another list of top teams hit the dust. No. 1-ranked Purdue was the latest victim. After the Boilers took down two top-10 teams in Maui the week before, Purdue fell on the road at Northwestern (92-88, OT) in their Big Ten Conference opener. It doesn’t help that the Boilers have Iowa, #23 Alabama, and #2 Arizona as their next three matchups on the schedule. But they weren’t the only top dawgs to get hunted down — #3 Marquette, #7 Duke, and #12 Kentucky were all victims of upsets to unranked opponents. Here’s a scoreboard of the college hoops weekend:
NCAA Men’s Basketball
Northwestern def. #1 Purdue (92-88, OT)
Wisconsin def. #3 Marquette (75-64)
#5 Kansas def. #4 UConn (69-65)
Georgia Tech def. #7 Duke (72-68)
UNC Wilmington def. #12 Kentucky (80-73)
NCAA Women’s Basketball
#1 South Carolina def. Duke (77-61)
Gonzaga def. #3 Stanford (96-78)
#4 Iowa def. Bowling Green (99-65)
#10 Texas def. #11 UConn (80-68)
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