College basketball power rankings: Virginia takes back No. 1 from Duke, Kentucky moves up to No. 3

The Zion Williamson injury is not the reason Duke is slipping this week. 

A 16-point home loss, one of the worst of Mike Krzyzewski’s career, is the reason Duke is slipping this week. The Blue Devils aren’t the only ones, no way. Tennessee, Nevada, LSU and others had to get knocked down a bit after losses of varying importance happened in recent days. 

As expected, the latest iteration of the power rankings have a lot of movement after a week in which many ranked teams provided interesting results. What’s more, this weekend could be a great one; we’re overdue for a stacked set of results, if not surprising ones. Six of the teams listed below will play each other this weekend.

These are the 19 most impressive and/or hottest and/or most dangerous teams in college basketball as of right now.

 ⤴️ means a team is higher than where it stood last week, ⤵️ indicates a drop and 🔄 means no change from last Thursday. 

Dropped out: Virginia Tech, Villanova, Iowa State