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  "textContent": "<p>\"Three Points\" to keep in mind with three weeks to go in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports\" target=\"_blank\" >college basketball</a>’s regular season:</p><p><b>1. It’s Michigan, man</b></p><p>With Arizona having lost two in a row — not to mention hotshot freshman Koa Peat to an unspecified injury — Michigan will be the no-doubt-about-it new No. 1-ranked team on Monday.</p><p>Some of us already thought the Wolverines (24-1) were the best team, just saying. They’ve won 10 straight. They trailed by 16 in the second half at Northwestern last week, yet still won by a dozen. They came back Saturday and blew out UCLA by 30. When this team — off to the best start in school history — puts the pedal down, it’s flippin’ scary.</p><p>Oh, and guess who plays at Purdue on Tuesday?</p><div class=\"RelatedList Enhancement\" data-module data-align-center> <div class=\"RelatedList-title\">Related</div> <ul class=\"RelatedList-items\"> <li class=\"RelatedList-items-item\"> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports/2026/02/15/illinois-keaton-wagler-david-mrkovic-kasparas-jakucionis-will-riley-terrance-shannon-illini-march-madness\" >Illini freshmen (better than last year?), NCAA potential (better than 2024?) shine through in rout of Indiana</a> </li> <li class=\"RelatedList-items-item\"> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports/2026/02/10/college-basketball-illinois-michigan-arizona-duke-cameron-boozer-keaton-wagler\" target=\"_blank\" >Entering college basketball’s stretch run, here are 10 things to get you all caught up</a> </li> </ul> </div> <p><b>2. Purple pain</b></p><p>Northwestern, loser of five straight, is tied with Penn State at the bottom of the Big Ten at 2-13. Going by conference record, it’s the worst team 13th-year coach Chris Collins has had and the worst Wildcats team since the 2007-08 squad went 1-17.</p><p>The Wildcats did beat Penn State in late January, giving them the tiebreaker just in case.</p><p>So they’ve got that going for them, which is, you know, whatever.</p><p><b>3. Sooner or later</b></p><p>Oklahoma is on a two-game winning streak. Other than that, coach Porter Moser’s experience this season has been like an out-of-control Sooner Schooner. Did you know that losing eight straight SEC games isn’t ideal? Now Moser, the former Loyola hero, knows it, too.</p><p>But wait — it’s his fifth straight sub-.500 SEC season since leaving Rogers Park for the big-time. Things just aren’t working. His seat is hot. There are fans shouting for his dismissal. Any chance football can start half a year early? That might be the only thing that would save him. That, or an out-of-nowhere SEC tournament title run. Pray for the man.</p><div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center><div class=\"Enhancement-item\"> <div class=\"ExternalContent-wrapper\" > <div class=\"TweetUrl\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taking the phrase “Porter Moser is on the hot seat” quite literally <a href=\"https://t.co/JJskGfG54L\">https://t.co/JJskGfG54L</a></p>— College Basketball Collective (@CBBCollective) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CBBCollective/status/2022789806632112243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script> </div> </div> </div></div><p></p>",
  "title": "Michigan the new No. 1, Northwestern hitting a new low and old friend Porter Moser is up against at Oklahoma",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-16T00:25:58.789Z"
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