Now is the time to see if the winter research and fact-finding plays out on the field or if the tea leaves were misread. When a team loses a series the first couple of weeks its easy to chalk it up to early season cobwebs or jitters, but when a predicted favorite gets sent to the woodshed now its time to rethink giving them the benefit of the doubt and start to consider that maybe they just aren’t that good. Since teams have been playing for a month their wins and losses have a bit more clout behind them as February turns to March. 1 teams remained situated atop their relative table. There were few bumps in the road for the nation’s best-of-the-best and it was one of the few rare weeks when each of the three No. A week after slabs of the small school rankings were twisted and rearranged after team after team faced each other in dystopian Hunger Games meets Fury Road contests, the modifications to the rankings were mostly minuscule the top teams in each of the three small school divisions remained more or less unchanged.
