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Battle-tested Orange crash top three, while KU holds No. 1 spot

Doing Power Rankings in a dead week gives us time to contemplate things, such as: Even five years ago, could coaches have imagined that a troubled, elite freshman would use a 10-minute YouTube -- complete with music and slow-strolling scenes! -- to announce, "I gotta leave college basketball because I'm just ridding people of the burden." That came from Minnesota's Royce White today, and news of it is just starting to spread. Had either of the star rookies from the 1-2 punch sitting atop these rankings done such a thing, it would've melted down the Internet.

NCAA Basketball Power Rankings

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