College basketball rankings: Baylor, Kansas hold spots in Top 25 And 1 after Bears' win over Jayhawks

There are lots of ways to highlight just how great Baylor is this season -- among them the fact that the Bears are the only team with an adjusted offensive efficiency rating and adjusted defensive efficiency rating that each rank in the top five nationally; they are awesome on both ends of the court. But what's also impressive is how they don't need their best player to play well to beat other good teams, and how they can take a big punch from an opponent while still cruising.

Baylor showed that over the past three days.

On Saturday, the Bears won 68-60 at Texas Tech despite their leading scorer, Jared Butler, missing nine of the 11 shots he took while committing a game-high seven turnovers. Butler was bad -- but it didn't matter. Baylor still won, no problem. Then, on Monday, the Bears beat Kansas 77-69 even though the Jayhawks made 10 of the 19 3-pointers they attempted. KU was great from beyond the arc -- but it didn't matter. Baylor still won, no problem, to remain undefeated and keep pace with top-ranked Gonzaga.

"I would be shocked if there's a third team that fits into that category [with Gonzaga and Baylor]," said Kansas coach Bill Self, whose Jayhawks lost 102-90 to Gonzaga in the opening game of the season. "We saw Gonzaga actually run it right down our throat right from the beginning; we saw Baylor do the same thing. So the games were actually pretty similar."

As Self noted, the games were similar in the sense that Gonzaga and Baylor controlled things from the jump. Gonzaga led Kansas by double-digits not even six minutes in and won by 12. Baylor led Kansas by double-digits not even six minutes in and won by eight (though it would've been an 11-point victory if not for a final-second Chris Teahan 3-pointer that turned winning bets into losing bets, and losing bets into winning bets, at the buzzer). Both the Zags and Bears overwhelmed a good -- maybe not great, but definitely good -- Kansas team that's in possession of three Quadrant 1 wins. And I think those results say way more about Gonzaga and Baylor than they do about Kansas, which, like everybody else in the sport, just is not operating on the level of Gonzaga and Baylor right now.

Baylor remains No. 2 in Tuesday morning's updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings. Kansas remains No. 8. And, yes, I realize the Jayhawks are now just 9-4. But it would make little sense to punish them for losing a single-digit game at Baylor, and it should be noted that three of KU's four losses are to teams ranked ahead of them in the Top 25 And 1 -- specifically No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 2 Baylor and No. 6 Texas. Kansas owns wins over No. 9 West Virginia, No. 12 Texas Tech and No. 17 Creighton. So the body of work is still solid even if the record might be a little misleading.