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Purdue is No. 1 with a bullet -- but early-season wins have Arizona, Illinois, Duke and Louisville in great spots

Oklahoma coach Jennie Baranczyk and the sixth-ranked Sooners became the latest college team to send fans into a frenzy when they hit 67 points in an 89-61 victory against North Alabama on Friday.

This season's November slate of men's college basketball is as loaded as it has ever been, which means notable fluctuation in the early-season rankings. The biggest risers over the first 10 days were Arizona and Alabama, as both programs leveraged their strengths to secure huge road wins over top-five opponents Florida and St. John's, respectively.

We've had seven top-25 matchups already this season, four of which featured two teams both ranked in the top 15 of the Associated Press poll. But Thursday night will deliver the first top-10 showdown of this season when Purdue plays at Alabama in a game scheduled to tip at 7 p.m. ET.

This was the moment a crowd of Gen Alpha kids had been waiting for with each point Evansville put on the scoreboard at a college men's basketball game.

Nonconference? Boring? Who would suggest such a thing? Tuesday night's college basketball schedule is, in fact, loaded.