In any collegiate sport, being the top-ranked team in the country means a lot of pressure to perform well. That pressure is easily evident in college basketball, where several teams are ranked #1 throughout a year; some reach that ranking multiple times in the same season.

Monday saw Oklahoma receive the #1 ranking in both major Division I basketball polls following a Kansas loss the previous week. The Sooners fell that evening at Iowa State, the third time this season a top-ranked has lost in Iowa. Earlier in the year, Northern Iowa stunned North Carolina, followed by Iowa edging Michigan State in a Big Ten rivalry. The Sooners came into Monday’s game with the Cyclones off a tough home win over West Virginia; had the Mountaineers won in Norman, WVU would’ve had a legitimate argument to be ranked #1. Now a new #1 will be announced next Monday, with all eyes focused on whether or not that team can stay atop the rankings for more than a week.

Monday also saw a major upset in Division II basketball as Concord upset the top-ranked team, West Liberty. The Hilltoppers have been the standard-bearer of the Mountain East Conference, but the Mountain Lions enjoyed a quick start against WLU in Athens, West Virginia. The Hilltoppers did rally to go into halftime on top, but Concord rallied for a 108-93 win that will mean a new top-ranked team in Division II next week. It could also prove to be a pivotal step for Concord, who just missed out on a berth in last year’s Division II Tournament; this might be the spark leading to a run that puts the Mountain Lions in this year’s tournament.

The story of rotating top-ranked teams is a drastic change from the main plot line of the 2014-15 basketball season; would Kentucky be able to go undefeated throughout an entire season? As it turned out, that wouldn’t be the case, but it was a fun story for neutrals to follow. This season, the story is the supposed “curse” of being #1, as the sport is now two months away from March Madness. How many more top-ranked teams will fall between now and March?