Anarchy reigned supreme across the college basketball landscape as seven ranked teams fell to unranked teams in a shakeup Saturday of stupendous proportions.

No. 2 Alabama was the (unfortunate) poster child of such chaos as the Crimson Tide — No. 3 in scoring margin among power conference teams headed into the weekend — got flattened by Oklahoma by 24 points on the road in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.

But Alabama wasn’t the only team to find itself on the losing side of a blowout in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge as No. 12 Iowa State also slipped up on the road, falling 78-61 to Missouri.

Here’s how the SEC/Big Challenge final played out with the Big 12 holding a 5-3 lead with two games still remaining:

SEC/Big Challenge scores

West Virginia 80, No. 15 Auburn 77Recap
Oklahoma 93, No. 2 Alabama 69Recap
Texas Tech 76, LSU 68Recap
Missouri 78, No. 12 Iowa State 61Recap
Mississippi State 81, No. 11 TCU 74Recap
No. 17 Baylor 67, Arkansas 64Recap
No. 4 Tennessee 82, No. 10 Texas 71Recap
No. 5 Kansas State 64, Florida 50Recap
No. 9 Kansas at KentuckyLIVE updates
Ole Miss at Oklahoma StateGameTracker

Elsewhere, Big East-leading and 13th-ranked Xavier also got pounded by unranked Creighton.

Oh, [Billy Mays voice] but wait, there’s more! Monmouth — which had the fewest wins of all Div. I teams entering Saturday — defeated North Carolina A&T by 15 points as a double-digit underdog. Meanwhile, No. 18 Charleston — which had the most wins of all Div. I teams entering Saturday — lost in a stunner to Hofstra, ending what was the longest winning streak in college basketball at a flat 20 games.

That’s but a sampling of the madness that rose in college basketball from a wild day. Here is a look at the others with some of the day’s biggest winners and losers.

Winner: Creighton turning corner

Following a meltdown of shocking proportions at the end of November and the start of December, Creighton’s preseason top-10 is slowly but surely rounding into form with the look of a top-10 team in the sport. The Bluejays pounded Big East-leading and No. 13-ranked Xavier 84-67 on Saturday for their fourth consecutive win to move to within 1.5 games of the conference’s top spot in the regular-season race. The hole they put themselves in early with a 3-3 start in conference play may be too difficult to overcome for a league title, but it’s clear this talented roster is finding its confidence and seems to be rolling into the stretch part of the season full steam ahead.

Losers: Charleston’s winning streak ends

The longest active winning streak in college basketball came to an unceremonious end on Saturday as No. 18 Charleston fell at home as a 9-point favorite to Hofstra 85-81. The loss, which moved Hofstra to within one game of the CAA’s regular-season No. 1 spot, was Charleston’s first in more than two months after falling in its second game of the season, only to reel off 20-straight in the win column since.

Winner: FAU takes Charleston’s place

What was Charleston’s loss (literally) was FAU’s win (also literally!) as Florida Atlantic with a 70-63 win over Western Kentucky extended its winning streak to 20 games and took Charleston’s spot as the team with the longest winning streak in the sport. No. 21 FAU improved to 21-1 on the season and remained perfect in Conference USA play with a perfect 11-0 league record.

Loser: Georgia Tech struggling under Pastner

Year 7 for Josh Pastner at Georgia Tech went from bad to humiliating in an 86-43 home loss to Duke as the Yellow Jackets suffered their seventh straight loss and fell to 8-13 (1-10 ACC). Georgia Tech shot just 30.9% from the floor and got manhandled 44-12 in paint points. Of the Yellow Jackets’ 10 league losses, nine have come by double digits, and it’s a near certainty that the season will conclude with Pastner still lacking an NCAA Tournament victory at the school. The 2021 team that won the ACC Tournament — even though it played only two games in the event due to COVID-19 issues with other teams — bought Pastner some goodwill. But after a 12-20 campaign in 2021-22 and this horrendous clunker of a season, the reasons for Georgia Tech to continue with Partner are running thin.

Winner: NC State finally gets another Quad 1 win

NC State made just 8 of 17 free throws and somehow managed to pick up a Quad 1 road victory anyway as the Wolfpack outlasted Wake Forest 79-77. DJ Burns led NC State with 31 points on a whopping 14 of 26 shooting, and the big man would have scored even more if he’d made more than 3 of 8 attempts from the charity stripe. Nevertheless, the win was huge for the Wolfpack as it marked just their second Quad 1 victory. NC State entered the day as a projected No. 7 seeds in Jerry Palm’s Bracketology and needed a little meat on the resume to give itself a margin for error. Saturday’s win provided it.

Winner: Bethune-Cookman wins it to cap chaotic week

With Bethune-Cookman’s football program in the news the last week for all the wrong reasons, the basketball team took it upon itself to provide a positive highlight. And boy did it deliver exactly that to cap what must have been an exhausting week for Wildcats basketball coach Reggie Theus, who is also the B-CU athletic director and in charge of dealing with the issues in the football program.

The Wildcats won in a last-second shot over Alabama State at home and did so in fashion while covering the 1.5-point spread to boot.

Losers: UCF’s fall continues

After a 107-104 win over Memphis on Jan. 11, UCF stood at 13-4 (4-1 AAC) and ranked No. 35 in the NET. The Golden Knights were on the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble and appeared to be building momentum ahead of next season’s transition to a far more difficult life in the Big 12. But over the last two weeks, reality has come crashing down on UCF, which dropped its fourth straight with a 77-70 overtime home loss against Temple on Saturday. The Owls entered the day at No. 125 in the NET but have suddenly won four straight, including a road win over Houston last Sunday. But this one will be hard to swallow for UCF, which led by 10 in the first half. The Golden Knights’ football program is on firm footing and should be competitive in the Big 12, but the last couple weeks have been a reminder that the school could be in for a rude awakening on the hoops side.

Loser: TCU’s injury luck

With big man Eddie Lampkin Jr. out, TCU’s injury luck went from bad to worse on the road vs. Mississippi State as star guard Mike Miles Jr. hyperextended his knee and reserve guard Shahada Wells briefly left the game with an injury before returning. Miles did not return to the game and Lampkin was sidelined indefinitely, and adding insults to the injuries, the No. 11 Horned Frogs came out on the losing end of an overtime effort, falling 81-74 on the road.

Winner: Fordham matches best win total in 17 years

Fordham basketball appeared to have finally found a coach worth keeping when former Villanova assistant Kyle Neptune led the Rams to a 16-16 record last season, marking the program’s first season with a .500 record since 2015-16. Then, Neptune left to replace Jay Wright at Villanova. But after choosing to elevate associate head coach Keith Urgo to head coach, Fordham has multiplied the momentum that Neptune sparked. The Rams improved to 17-4 (5-3 A-10) with an 85-70 win over George Washington on Saturday to match the program’s best win total of the past 17 seasons. With two more wins, Fordham will have its most victories since the 1991-92 season. The next step for Fordham may be hanging on to Urgo, who has assistant coaching stops at Villanova and Penn State under his belt and is a candidate for Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year.

Loser: Alabama gets pummeled by OU

For most of the season Alabama has been ganging up on inferior opponents and not just winning, but winning big; its scoring margin entering Saturday was third-highest among all major conference teams. But against unranked OU on the road, it was Alabama on the receiving end of a butt-whoopin’ as the Sooners won 93-69, handing them their largest loss by margin of the Nate Oats era. (Its last loss by 20 or more came in 2018-19 when it fell to rival Auburn by 21 points.)

“I thought the guys kept on bouncing back. I’ve seen some crazy runs by Alabama [this season],” said OU coach Porter Moser. “We had some good offensive possessions, good defensive possessions. That was the key to stopping their runs, and they didn’t really have any against us.”

Winner: Marquette ties for Big East lead

The Big East coaches picked Marquette to finish ninth in the conference before the season. After an 89-69 win at DePaul and Xavier’s loss at Creighton, the No. 16 Golden Eagles are now tied for first. David Joplin exploded for a career-high 28 points on 8 of 11 shooting from 3-point range and Tyler Kolek added 24 as Marquette racked up 56 points and made 11 3-pointers in the second half. The Golden Eagles have won eight of their last nine and now sit at No. 1 nationally in offensive efficiency, per Kenpom.com. In just his second season as coach, Shaka Smart has revitalized the Marquette program and his own reputation as a coach.

Losers: Wisconsin’s season slipping away

After an 11-2 start to the season for Wisconsin with wins over USC, Marquette and Iowa and a close OT loss to reigning national champion Kansas, the Badgers looked like a formidable force in the Big Ten and beyond. Fast forward three weeks and some change and the momentum they carried into 2023 has all but totally dissipated with its 61-51 loss to Illinois, its sixth loss in seven games. Wisconsin has been a consistent winner under Greg Gard, Bo Ryan’s successor, but it matches the worst seven-game stretch under Gard since he took over the program in 2015.