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College basketball’s famous Feast Week has come and gone, inflicting its usual chaos upon the sport’s elite and crowning a new king — Purdue beat Gonzaga, Tennessee and Marquette en route to victory over a historic Maui Invitational field.
NCAA.com’s Andy Katz delivers his latest Power 36 rankings, as well as his player of the week, team of the week and the top-10 games to watch for the upcoming week:
Dropping out: UCLA (18), Oregon (23), Virginia (26), Michigan State (24), Pitt (31) Arkansas (32), Colorado (33), USC (34).
Under consideration: Providence, Florida State, Princeton, Cincinnati, Hawai’i, SMU, GW, Virginia Tech, Iowa State, Rutgers, Northwestern, UC Irvine, Liberty, Evansville, New Mexico, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Santa Clara.
Keep an eye on: Creighton at Nebraska, Sunday; Illinois at Rutgers, Saturday; Michigan at Oregon, Saturday; Hawai’i at Utah, Thursday; Dayton at SMU, Wednesday; New Mexico State at New Mexico, Saturday; Rhode Island at Providence, Saturday; Charleston at Florida Atlantic, Saturday; Clemson at Pitt, Sunday. Weekly Awards from @TheAndyKatz
Team of the Week: Purdue
Player of the Week: Eric Dixon pic.twitter.com/Lyjh02mAmO
Purdue: The Boilermakers won the best-ever Maui Invitational, relocated to Honolulu. Purdue was in Final Four/No. 1 seed form with wins over Gonzaga, Tennessee and Marquette. And that puts Purdue as the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 for the third season in a row.
Other candidates: Villanova (won Atlantis); Florida Atlantic (won ESPN Events Invitational).
Eric Dixon, Villanova: Dixon led the Wildcats to the Battle 4 Atlantis title with 19 in a win over Texas Tech, 34 in a win over North Carolina and 11 in the blowout win over Memphis. He made 21 field goals, of which five were 3s in the three games and grabbed a total of 24 boards and had four steals and one block.
Other candidates: Zach Edey, Purdue; Tyler Thomas, Hofstra.
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