{"id":558311,"date":"2026-01-24T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/558311\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:05:16","slug":"top-25-and-1-saint-louis-wins-13th-straight-is-19-1-after-win-vs-st-bonaventure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/558311\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 And 1: Saint Louis wins 13th straight, is 19-1 after win vs. St. Bonaventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"saint-louis-top-25-and-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/saint-louis-top-25-and-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Sports graphic<\/p>\n<p>Only two ranked teams played Friday &#8212; <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/MICH\/michigan-wolverines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan<\/a> and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/STLOU\/saint-louis-billikens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Louis<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/news\/college-basketball-rankings-top-25-and-1-michigan-ohio-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">I wrote about the Wolverines on Friday morning<\/a>. So, on this Saturday morning, let&#8217;s focus on the Billikens.<\/p>\n<p>Final score: Saint Louis 97, <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/STBON\/st-bonaventure-bonnies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Bonaventure<\/a> 62<\/p>\n<p>The Billikens went to the Reilly Center, took a 32-point lead at the half and cruised to a fourth double-digit victory in their past five outings. This was the most lopsided of the run thanks in part to a didn&#8217;t-see-that-coming effort from <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/players\/29559459\/ishan-sharma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ishan Sharma<\/a>. The 6-foot-5 sophomore took 14 shots, made 10 of them and finished with a career-high 29 points, two rebounds, two assists and two steals. He was 9 of 12 from 3-point range in what was SLU&#8217;s 12th straight win.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Louis made 19 3-pointers in the game.<\/p>\n<p>That tied the program record.<\/p>\n<p>As you likely know, there are still three undefeated teams in the sport &#8212; <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/ARIZ\/arizona-wildcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a>, <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NEB\/nebraska-cornhuskers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska<\/a> and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/MIAOH\/miami-ohio-redhawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami (Ohio)<\/a>. Nobody is closer to still being a part of that group than Saint Louis, which is 19-1 with the lone loss being a one-point defeat (78-77) to <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/STNFRD\/stanford-cardinal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford<\/a>. The Billikens actually led that contest by 15 points in the first half. Had they held on, they&#8217;d be 20-0 heading into Tuesday&#8217;s game against <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/GWASH\/george-washington-revolutionaries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/news\/college-basketball-picks-predictions-odds-betting-lines-top-25-alabama-tennessee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>College basketball picks, schedule: Predictions for Alabama vs. Tennessee, more Top 25 games Saturday<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Kyle Boone                <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"College basketball picks, schedule: Predictions for Alabama vs. Tennessee, more Top 25 games Saturday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gettyimages-2255598525-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"152\" width=\"270\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it is, Saint Louis is still an impressive 19-1 overall, including 7-0 in the Atlantic 10. The Billikens are No. 22 in Saturday morning&#8217;s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings, where Arizona remains No. 1 for the 14th consecutive day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenpom.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KenPom.com<\/a> is now projecting SLU to finish 16-2 in the A-10 and win the outright league title by three games.<\/p>\n<p> Top 25 And 1 rankings <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports graphic Only two ranked teams played Friday &#8212; Michigan and Saint Louis.\u00a0I wrote about the Wolverines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[1982,7,217,37927,60152,60153,46329,68164,62790,69284,1043,8905,43666,34561,18895,12772],"class_list":{"0":"post-558311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-arizona-wildcats","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-basketball-rankings","12":"tag-college-basketball-top-25","13":"tag-college-basketball-top-25-and-1","14":"tag-george-washington-revolutionaries","15":"tag-ishan-sharma","16":"tag-mens-college-basketball-rankings","17":"tag-miami-ohio-redhawks","18":"tag-michigan-wolverines","19":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","20":"tag-saint-louis","21":"tag-saint-louis-billikens","22":"tag-st-bonaventure-bonnies","23":"tag-stanford-cardinal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}