The aforementioned 2017 Wildcats, who dropped out of the AP Top 25 poll early in the year, bounced back from their slow start and finished the year with a 27–8 record, only to fall to Buffalo as a No. 4 seed in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Back-to-back NCAA Tournament champion UConn narrowly avoided falling out of the AP Top 25 college basketball poll entirely on Monday after an 0-3 week at the Maui Invitational in which it lost to three unranked teams in as many days.

Dan Hurley thought his team was underrated coming into the season. But so far, the Huskies have only proven preseason rankings may have overvalued UConn.

After a nightmare trip to Hawaii for the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team, the team saw its ranking drop in Monday’s The Associated Press poll.