Iowa State crashed the top five of the latest College Basketball Power Rankings this week for the first time and Florida moved to its highest ranking (No. 3) of the season after high profile flops from UCLA and Kentucky last week in the CBS Sports Classic.

Despite not receiving much love from the college basketball voters, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team sits solidly in the upper part of the Big Ten power rank

How much benefit of the doubt should we give those Big Ten Conference teams who played the toughest non-conference schedules? Ken Pomeroy’s analytics site classifies some games as either A (top 50) or B (top 100) quality based on both opponent and location.

With Big 12 play beginning next week, the real fun begins. And so far, Cincinnati has been a steady climber while proving it's for real.

Now comes the fun part. Arizona has navigated one of the toughest nonconference schedules in the country, though it didn’t fare too well with a 6-5 record that is tied for the worst of any team in its conference.