What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Matthew Eisenberg (@matteise) is your weekly host.

Feast Week ended with a fantastic close to the PK80 with Duke’s comeback against Florida. Monday marked the start of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge with Wisconsin traveling to Virginia. The game ended up going just as everyone imagined it would…

Watching Virginia-Wisconsin after watching the games this weekend is what it must feel like for college coaches to scout HS games with no shot clock.

— Rob Dauster (@RobDauster) November 28, 2017

Cancel all future Virginia/Wisconsin games and mark the score 48-38.

— Ken Pomeroy (@kenpomeroy) November 28, 2017

Thursday night alley-oops made a pair of headlines.  First there was Michigan State’s Miles Bridges doing this….

Miles Bridges just dunked over HIS OWN @MSU_Basketball TEAMMATE. pic.twitter.com/oG3b5TeZIS

— Michigan St. on BTN (@MichiganStOnBTN) December 1, 2017

And here is when a pass thrown a bit too high and a bit too hard becomes the best pass possible…

Wait … did that go in? #SCtop10 pic.twitter.com/wM7wO5MkVv

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 1, 2017

Georgia Tech finished up its series of Ramblin’ Wreck Showcase with a match-up against Grambling State on Friday evening. Not only did the Yellow Jackets ultimately lose the game, they gave up the lead on a possession in which they forced a miss from Grambling State…

Later on Friday night, Boise State beat Oregon to end the longest home winning streak in the nation…

https://twitter.com/marchmadness/status/936823765727449088

While things did not reach the same level as the infamous Yancy Gates and Kenny Frease fight back in 2011, this year’s showdown between Cincinnati and Xavier will be worth remembering for this postgame response from Mick Cronin…

Things got… heated… after an alleged verbal altercation between Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin and Xavier guard J.P. Macura. pic.twitter.com/q9vZH3qcN2

— FOX College Hoops (@CBBonFOX) December 2, 2017

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