BT's Weekly Fab 15

BT's Weekly Fab 15

ESPN’s latest conquest – the Thanksgiving tournaments – somehow managed to miss out on the best game of the week.
Purdue and Tennessee slugged it out in near anonymity Monday before just 3,755 in the championship game of the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, neither team leading by more than six points throughout the contest.
For that, the Boilermakers take over the No. 1 ranking in Basketball Times’ results-based Fab 15.
The Fab 15 welcomes Florida, No. 34 in the AP poll before beating Michigan State on Friday at the Legends Classic in Atlantic City, N.J.; UNLV, No. 46 in the AP poll before beating Louisville on Saturday; and Texas A&M, No. 41 before beating Clemson and Minnesota and finishing third in the brutally tough 76 Classic.
Marquette and Portland, voteless in last week’s AP poll, flirted with spots in the Fab 15.

Syracuse’s Wes Johnson, MVP of the recent 2K Sports Classic 10 days ago, and Mississippi State’s Jarvis Varnado, replace Duke’s Nolan Smith and Texas’ Damion James on our early, early, early All-America team. Ohio State’s Evan Turner remains BT’s early, early, early player of the year.
Nov. 30 All-Americans – Manny Harris, G, Michigan (21.3 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 7.0 apg); Wes Johnson, F, Syracuse (18.3, 7.2); Quincy Pondexter, F, Washington (20.6, 11.0); Evan Turner, G-F, Ohio State (19.8, 12.8, 6.7); Jarvis Varnado, F, Mississippi State (14.5, 10.0, 5.5 bpg).
Nov. 30 Player of the Year – Turner.

 BT's Fab 15 (Through Nov. 30)

 1. Purdue (5-0)
2. Villanova (6-0)
3. Kansas (5-0)
4. Texas (5-0)
5. Duke (6-0)
6. Kentucky (6-0)
7. West Virginia (5-0)
8. Florida (6-0)
9. Michigan State (5-1)
10. Syracuse (6-0)
11. North Carolina (5-1)
12. UNLV (5-0)
13. Texas A&M (5-1)
14. Ohio State (5-1)
15. Georgetown (4-0)