AP Top 25 College Basketball Rankings & Tuesday Best Bets

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00:00Do you want anything to do with this AP Top 25, Joe?

00:02Number one is Houston.

00:04Number two is Purdue.

00:05Number three is UConn.

00:06Number four is Duke.

00:06Number five is Arizona.

00:08Yes, it's early, but you do have to rank these teams early.

00:11And some of these teams will start to play better competition as we move forward.

00:15But this is the layout right now.

00:16Do you agree, Joe?

00:17Houston should be number one right now.

00:19Well, I mean, listen, yes.

00:21Big, all of this is all great here after one week.

00:25I mean, you've got a ton of incoming freshmen this year, Donnie, that are really starting

00:32to make an impact in just a handful of games for programs around the country here.

00:38But, you know, a lot can change.

00:40International players.

00:42But we're just, even these teams, Donnie, at this point, are still trying to get used

00:46to rotations, who does what.

00:48You know, in another month or so, by the time we hit December, some of these teams will really

00:55start coming to their own.

00:56We'll have a better idea.

00:57But for right now, I think the usual suspects in this list, the top 25, yeah, it's all going

01:03to be mixing and matching from this point on.

01:06I get angry, typically, at the early season, called the silly season.

01:09But every once in a while, we get some gems, Joe, tonight in the battle of Kentucky tonight.

01:12How about Kentucky versus Louisville?

01:14643, 644 rotation number.

01:16Open up four and a half point favorite.

01:17Still sitting across the board at four and a half.

01:20But how about this, Joe?

01:22168 and a half is on the overnight number for the total.

01:24Joe, ooh, that seems high.

01:25Take the under.

01:26No, no, no, no, no.

01:27One 75 and a half, Joe.

01:30We're getting up and down the court tonight.

01:33Donnie, this is one of, if not the biggest rivalries in college basketball here.

01:40And unfortunately, for Louisville, it has been dominated, shocker, by Kentucky here, who have

01:47won six of the last seven between the schools.

01:50But Pat Kelsey, the new head coach over there at Louisville, man, he has got some firepower,

01:56Donnie.

01:56They just dropped 100 points, I think, on Jackson State last game at the Yum Center there.

02:04And they haven't scored 100 points as a Louisville team in a very, very long time.

02:08So this is going to be one of the craziest atmospheres that we're going to see.

02:13And yes, I think points are definitely coming.

02:16A little less defense, a little more points, a little more running with the way these guys

02:20like to play.

02:2110 p.m.

02:22Game on the West Coast.

02:24Gonzaga, I think it's on the West Coast here.

02:25Gonzaga versus Creighton.

02:26I'm not showing a neutral site here.

02:2712 and a half point favorite, Joe.

02:29That opening line, eight and a half.

02:30Money growing on Gonzaga in this spot.

02:32And also roughly about 70% of the tickets as well.

02:36166.

02:37You know what, man?

02:38I'm loving these totals, Joe.

02:39What am I making?

02:40I'm used to 142 and a halves out here.

02:44Yeah, well, you know, Gonzaga is always there with Mark Few.

02:47He's going to run, run, run, run, run, and run.

02:51I watched them beat Oklahoma, Porter Moser and Oklahoma in that second game for Gonzaga.

02:58You know, they had a lot of questions, a lot of new faces, a lot of new moving parts.

03:02Graham Ike, the holdover there for Gonzaga, I mean, phenomenal here.

03:09And yes, this is going to be a battle.

03:11And yet, it's probably going to be reigning threes in this game.

03:16Wouldn't shock me if we had another over here.

03:19By the way, things are starting to look up, too.

03:20Like, Wake Forest takes on Michigan tonight.

03:22I got Duke and Army, at least in Division I games.

03:24Florida and Florida State going to take on each other.

03:26You got, obviously, the top 12 teams, Louisville and Kentucky going to tee that one up.

03:30That game is at the Yum Center in Kentucky.

03:32Just scrolling down, you got Texas Tech and Illinois, Joe, tonight.

03:35Two ranked teams playing each other.

03:36Ball State, Wisconsin, okay at that point here.

03:39And then Creighton and Gonzaga.

03:40So, I like to bitch and moan about we don't get these good games early.

03:43Tonight's not a bad night for college basketball action if you want to sit back on a Tuesday.

03:48Hour number two is up next.

03:49The fun has just begun.

03:50Come on back with us.

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