The Emery Board

This weekly column is in honor of BYU's Jackson Emery, who, for two straight seasons, claimed his squad would go undefeated and win the National Championship.

College basketball has not seen a team go undefeated since Bobby Knight's Indiana Hoosiers went 32-0 in 1975-1976. The closest we have seen since then was a Jameer Nelson-led St. Joseph's team that went 27-0 in the 2003-2004 season before losing to Xavier in the Atlantic-10 tournament. Every season a team flirts with the notion of an undefeated season, but every season that notion slowly fades as January turns to February and February turns to March.

The Emery Board: 1st Edition

More than half of the teams featured in this week's AP Top-25 are undefeated. But with a loaded slate of games this week, how many of them will still be on the Emery Board next week? Once teams start eliminating themselves from Emery Board contention, we will provide some in-depth projection on when they might suffer their first loss. But for now, you get just the basics.

No.1 Kentucky (6-0)
Next game: 12/1 vs. St. John's (4-3)
First potential loss: 12/3 vs. No.5 North Carolina

No.2 Ohio State (6-0)
Next game: 11/29 vs. No.3 Duke (7-0)
First potential loss: 11/29 vs. No.3 Duke (7-0)

No.3 Duke (7-0)
Next game: 11/29 at No.2 Ohio State (6-0)
First potential loss: 11/29 at No.2 Ohio State

No.4 Syracuse (6-0)
Next game: 11/29 vs. Eastern Michigan (4-2)
First potential loss: 12/2 vs. No.10 Florida (4-1)

No.6 Louisville (5-0)
Next game: 11/28 vs. Long Beach State (3-2)
First potential loss: 12/8 vs. No.20 Vanderbilt (5-1)

No.7 Baylor (5-0)
Next game: 11/29 vs. Prairie View A&M (2-5)
First potential loss: 12/4 at Northwestern (5-0)

No.9 Wisconsin (6-0)
Next game: 11/30 at No.5 North Carolina (5-1)
First potential loss: 11/30 at No.5 North Carolina (5-1)

No.11 Xavier (4-0)
Next game: 11/28 at No.20 Vanderbilt (5-1)
First potential loss: 11/28 at No.20 Vanderbilt (5-1)

No.12 Alabama (7-0)
Next game: 12/1 vs. Georgetown (4-1)
First potential loss: 12/1 vs. Georgetown (4-1)

No.13 Missouri (6-0)
Next game: 12/2 vs. Northwestern State (3-3)
First potential loss: 12/6 vs. Villanova (4-2)

No.16 Marquette (5-0)
Next game: 11/28 vs. Jacksonville (2-3)
First potential loss: 12/3 at No.9 Wisconsin (6-0)

No.18 UNLV (7-0)
Next game: 11/30 at UC-Santa Barbara (4-1)
First potential loss: 12/10 at No.9 Wisconsin (6-0)

No.19 Gonzaga (4-0)
Next game: 11/30 vs. Notre Dame (5-2)
First potential loss: 11/30 vs. Notre Dame (5-2)

No.23 Saint Louis (6-0)
Next game: 11/29 at Loyola Marymount (3-2)
First potential loss: 12/31 at New Mexico (4-2)

Creighton (5-0)
Next game: 11/30 at San Diego State (7-1)
First potential loss: 11/30 at San Diego State (7-1)

Harvard (6-0)
Next game: 12/1 at Vermont (4-2)
First potential loss: 12/8 at No.8 UConn (6-1)

Illinois (6-0)
Next game: 11/29 at Maryland (3-2)
First potential loss: 12/3 vs. No.19 Gonzaga (4-0)

Indiana (6-0)
Next game: 11/30 at North Carolina State (5-1)
First potential loss: 11/30 at North Carolina State (5-1)

Marshall (5-0)
Next game: 11/30 vs. Ohio (3-1)
First potential loss: 12/6 at No.4 Syracuse (6-0)

Missouri State (4-0)
Next game: 11/30 at Oral Roberts (4-2)
First potential loss: 12/3 at New Mexico (4-2)

Murray State (7-0)
Next game: 12/1 at Western Kentucky (2-5)
First potential loss: 12/4 vs. Dayton (5-1)

North Dakota State (6-0)
Next game: 12/1 at Western Illinois (2-2)
First potential loss: 12/10 at Arizona State (2-4)

Northwestern (5-0)
Next game: 11/29 at Georgia Tech (4-2)
First potential loss: 11/29 at Georgia Tech (4-2)

Tulane (7-0)
Next game: 11/30 vs. Southern (2-4)
First potential loss: 12/3 vs. Georgia Tech (4-2)

Weber State (4-0)
Next game: 11/28 at Saint Mary's (3-1)
First potential loss: 11/28 at Saint Mary's (3-1)



Bottom of the Barrel

Alabama State (0-4)
Next game: 11/29 at Evansville (2-2)
Next real chance to win: 12/30 vs. Reinhardt (Non-D1)

Austin Peay (0-7)
Next game: 11/28 at Lipscomb (3-3)
First real chance to win: 12/5 vs. Arkansas State (1-4)

Binghamton (0-5)
Next game: 12/3 vs. Army (2-4)
First real chance to in: 12/3 vs. Army (2-4)

Chicago State (0-6)
Next game: 11/30 at Illinois State (4-2)
First real chance to win: 12/17 at Loyola (IL) (1-4)

Florida A&M (0-6)
Next game: 12/3 at Bethune-Cookman (2-4)
First real chance to win: 12/3 at Bethune-Cookman (2-4)

Grambling State (0-5)
Next game: 11/30 at Washington State (2-4)
First real chance to win: 1/3 vs. Alabama State (0-4)

Hartford (0-6)
Next game: 11/29 vs. Yale (3-2)
First real chance to win: 1/5 vs. New Hampshire (1-2)

Louisiana-Monroe (0-6)
Next game: 11/28 at Nicholls State (1-5)
First real chance to win: 11/28 at Nicholls State (1-5)

Monmouth (0-6)
Next game: 12/1 at St. Francis (PA) (0-5)
First real chance to win: 12/1 at St. Francis (PA) (0-5)

Morgan State (0-6)
Next game: 12/3 at Ohio (3-1)
First real chance to win: 12/14 at UMBC (0-5)

Northern Illinois (0-5)
Next game: 11/28 at Utah Valley (3-3)
First real chance to win: 12/3 vs. Nebraska-Omaha (2-4)

St. Francis (PA) (0-5)
Next game: 12/1 vs. Monmouth (0-6)
First real chance to win: 12/1 vs. Monmouth (0-6)

SIU-Edwardsville (0-4)
Next game: 11/30 vs. Robert Morris (IL) (Non-D1)
First real chance to win: 11/30 vs. Robert Morris (IL) (Non-D1)

Towson (0-5)
Next game: 11/30 at UMass (5-2)
First real chance to win: 12/10 vs. UMBC (0-5)

UC-Irvine (0-6)
Next game: 12/3 vs. San Diego (4-2)
First real chance to win: 12/10 vs. Vanguard (Non-D1)

UMBC (0-5)
Next game: 11/28 at Rutgers (3-3)
First real chance to win: 12/10 at Towson (0-5)

UNC-Wilmington (0-4)
Next game: 11/30 at Toledo (4-1)
First real chance to win: 12/6 at Liberty (2-5)

Western Michigan (0-6)
Next game: 11/30 vs. Hope (Non-D1)
First real chance to win: 11/30 vs. Hope (Non-D1)