Wisconsin men’s basketball: UW now in the top-10 of most recent AP Poll

Your Wisconsin Badgers (14-2 overall, 5-1 Big Ten) just can’t stop moving up the AP rankings. After a week where they only played one game, a dominant win over a ranked Ohio State team, the Badgers moved into the top-10 for the first time this season.

The Badgers are tied for the most Quad 1 wins in the country, with five, and have a combined nine Quad 1 and Quad 2 wins, which in my cursory look appears to be the most in the country. This team is fun AND good. You really do love to see it.

• AP Poll: No. 8
• NET: No. 18
• KenPom: No. 27
• T-Rank: No. 23
• Your hearts: No. 1

Here’s how the rest of the Big Ten looked in the new AP rankings:

• No. 4 Purdue Boilermakers
• No. 8 Wisconsin Badgers
• No. 14 Michigan State Spartans
• No. 17 Illinois Fighting Illini
• No. 19 Ohio State Buckeyes
• Iowa and Indiana are receiving votes

Gonzaga is back at No. 1 in the polls, after Baylor suffered two straight losses and dropped to No. 5, while Auburn moved up to No. 2, followed by No. 3 Arizona. Loyola (Chicago) and UConn are the two newcomers to the polls this week while Alabama and Seton Hall dropped out.

The Badgers travel to play a scrappy Northwestern team, coming off a win over Michigan State, in Evanston, Ill. on Tuesday and then return home to play the No. 14 Spartans on Friday night at a, hopefully, rowdy as hell Kohl Center.