NCAA Basketball Power Rankings Rank LW Team 11 5 West Virginia Mountaineers (18-6) Your weekly statistical public service announcement on the risk of your team depending on three-pointers for more than 40 percent of its points. Only six squads in Division I do it. Only half of them have a winning record against D-I teams. Living Beyond the Arc Teams with the highest % of their points on 3s Rk. Team Pct. on 3s Rec. vs. D-I 1 Princeton 50.1 7-12 2 Samford 49.7 14-8 3 Troy 46.9 9-11 4 Air Force 41.5 17-5 5 Baylor 41.2 2-9 6 West Virginia 41.1 17-6 Source: kenpom.com Next three: 2/18 vs. UConn, 2/20 at Syracuse, 2/25 vs. Louisville. 12 - Kansas Jayhawks (18-6) KU: From lost cause in December (3-4) to the Power Rankings (18-6) and a short profile in SI this week. Much of the credit has to go to the defense of young backcourt duo Mario Chalmers and Russell Robinson, who are pilfering opponents for a combined 4.7 steals per game. "We're both scorers who like to get out in transition," Robinson says, "and what better way to do it than by pressuring the ball?" Next three: 2/18 vs. Missouri, 2/21 vs. Baylor, 2/25 at Texas. 13 - Iowa Hawkeyes (20-6) Alford (AP) Kudos to SI.com's Seth Davis for breaking the story of Mike Davis resigning from Indiana on Wednesday night. Now is the time Iowa fans start to sweat; their team is atop the Big Ten, but their coach, the former IU hero Steve Alford, is Candidate No. 1 in Bloomington. With four seniors in the starting lineup, and a coach with quite possibly one foot out the door, there will be a one-last-hurrah feeling surrounding the rest of the season. Next three: 2/18 at Minnesota, 2/25 at Illinois, 3/1 vs. Penn State 14 - Ohio State Buckeyes (18-4) The Buckeyes are now the only team in the nation to have beaten Illinois each of the past two years, but their reaction to last Saturday's 69-53 beatdown at Value City Arena was much, much different than the freak-out that occurred after ending the Illini's undefeated season in '04-05. This time, the locker room was "very low key, which I liked," coach Thad Matta told the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. OSU, which has won six of its last eight, was permitted to stick around in the rankings after Wednesday's loss at right-on-the-cusp Wisconsin; Illinois, after losing two straight and looking sluggish against Northwestern, takes a week off. Nothing personal. There's just, you know, limited space here. Next three: 2/18 vs. Northwestern, 2/22 at Michigan State, 2/25 vs. Michigan. 15 14 Georgetown Hoyas (17-5) The chorus to Jeff Green's Mom -- Georgetown students' ode to their sophomore star's mother -- ran in the GU portion of my D.C. journal. Here, the best verse: Jeff Green do you remember when they showed your mom (showed your mom) She was dancin' up on the JumboTr-on (JumboTron) She held a sign and waved her arms in the air (in the air) We heard her say: "That's my son over the--re!" (over there) Can anyone nominate more "celebrity" moms in college hoops? Send 'em via the e-mail link at the end ... Next three: 2/16 at Marquette, 2/19 at Villanova, 2/22 vs. Rutgers. 16 13 UCLA Bruins (19-4) A freshman making the All-Glue Team? Unheard of. The Bruins' Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, who leads the Pac-10 in field-goal percentage, earned the honor on SI.com this week. He'll need to be extra sticky in the coming weeks, as UCLA's lead in the Pac-10 is tenuous; Cal has creeped up to within a half game by reeling off five straight wins. Next three: 2/19 at USC, 2/22 vs Oregon State, 2/25 vs. Oregon.

Dropped out: Michigan State, N.C. State, Illinois.

On the cusp: Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Bucknell, N.C. State, Cal, Boston College, Marquette, LSU, Wichita State, Oklahoma, UNC.

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