College basketball rankings: Tennessee, Oklahoma and Clemson are on the way up

In this week’s Top 25, the top seven remain unchanged, but there’s a lot of movement elsewhere. Five of the bottom six teams last week all lost, and all but one got the boot.

Your weekly friendly reminder: The setup of this season’s Top 25 is that I’ll give nuggets on an unspecified number of teams each week. So if a team appears in the table but not the text below, that’s why.

Arizona had the highest points per possession (1.29) against Wisconsin’s defense in Saturday’s 98-73 win of any Badgers opponent over the last six seasons. The Wildcats now have two of the most impressive performances all season, winning at Cameron Indoor earlier this year and then steamrolling Wisconsin. It was the start of one of the most challenging four-game, nonconference stretches in the country. Next up is a game against Purdue in Indianapolis, then Alabama in Phoenix and Florida Atlantic in Las Vegas. If any team is built to face Zach Edey, it’s the Cats and their two 7-footers. Starting center Oumar Ballo is committing just 2.8 fouls per 40 minutes and splits time with freshman Motiejus Krivas.

Purdue

The challenge of playing Edey without fouling continued on Saturday with Alabama as the latest victim. Edey fouled out two Bama bigs and made all 11 of his free throws on his way to 35 points. How rare is it for someone so big to have that kind of day at the stripe?

Since 2010-11, Edey became just the fifth center taller than 7 feet to have a perfect game at the line attempting at least 10 free throws. The 7-foot-4 Edey is the tallest to accomplish such a feat. Add it to the list of incredible Edey accomplishments.

Marquette

Marquette’s offense was out of sorts in the loss to Wisconsin a week ago, and Tyler Kolek just didn’t look like himself in that game. The Badgers threw some different ball-screen coverages at him, including going way under on some exchanges:

Kolek is usually decisive in his reads, but there was some hesitancy — almost surprise — in how they guarded him.

Shaka Smart wisely opened Wednesday night’s game against Texas with a ball screen for Kolek. Texas went under, and:

Kolek was aggressive from the jump and in attack mode. He finished with 28 points and six assists against the Longhorns. He followed that up with 17 points and seven assists in a 78-59 win over Notre Dame on Saturday. Kolek and the Golden Eagles have their swag back.

Mizzou tried to ignore KJ Adams on Saturday, and it didn’t work so well. Adams chilling in the short corner and sneaking behind the defense is becoming a money play for the Jayhawks.

Adams is scoring 5.2 points per game off cuts, second-best in the country, per Synergy. The Jayhawks lead college basketball in points off cuts at 14.9 per game.

Connecticut

One reason to fear the Huskies is their offense has been elite so far — third in efficiency — and they’re not even shooting it well yet. The looks are great too. They attempt…