Kansas held off Auburn for the No. 1 rating in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday as Southeastern Conference groups grabbed three of the highest 4 spots and two-time reigning nationwide champion UConn almost fell out fully after an 0-3 week on the Maui Invitational.
The Jayhawks earned 35 of 61 first-place votes within the ballot, whereas the Tigers bought the remaining 26 and climbed two spots to No. 2 after successful the Maui title. The Huskies fell all the best way to No. 25, barely avoiding changing into solely the second crew to go from No. 2 to unranked in every week in almost 4 a long time.
It was a part of a turbulent week throughout vacation week tournaments, main to 6 new groups getting into the rankings.
Kansas (7-0), which beat Duke final week, had elevated its margin on the No. 2-ranked crew every week for the reason that preseason ballot and had a 107-point margin on the Huskies final week. But with the Tigers — ranked No. 1 in KenPom’s metrics — beating ranked Iowa State and North Carolina groups within the Maui title run, that margin is simply 9 factors this week.
Auburn was joined by fellow SEC faculties No. 3 Tennessee and No. 4 Kentucky, with every crew climbing 4 spots. Marquette was subsequent at No. 5, adopted by Iowa State, Gonzaga, Purdue, Duke and Alabama to spherical out the highest 10.
UConn’s slide
The Huskies (5-3) had received 17 straight video games getting into the Maui Invitational, however issues shortly went awry with an opening-round extra time loss to Memphis in a sport that had coach Dan Hurley fuming about officiating. UConn misplaced the subsequent day to Colorado, then misplaced to Dayton within the seventh-place sport to complete final within the prestigious match.
It was harking back to No. 2 Arizona’s 0-3 crash on the Battle 4 Atlantis within the Bahamas in November 2017. But the Huskies prevented the identical ballot destiny because the Wildcats, who turned the primary crew to go from No. 2 to unranked in every week since Louisville in November 1986 after its match flop within the Great Alaska Shootout.
Rising and falling
While Oregon jumped 26 spots to enter the AP Top 25, Marquette, Purdue and No. 13 Florida had the week’s largest climbs throughout the ballot, every rising 5 spots. No. 11 Wisconsin joined Tennessee and Kentucky with four-spot jumps as 10 groups rose from their spots in final week’s ballot.
In all, seven groups fell from final week’s ballot.
While UConn’s tumble stood out, No. 17 Houston fell 11 spots after losses to Alabama and now-No. 24 San Diego State within the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.
North Carolina additionally had a giant fall, sliding eight spots to No. 20 after losses to Auburn and Michigan State in Maui. Gonzaga tumbled 4 spots to seventh after dropping its Battle 4 Atlantis opener to West Virginia.
Status quo
No. 23 Mississippi joined Kansas as the one groups to carry their place from final week.
Welcome
Oregon led the week’s six new groups after beating Alabama to win the Players Era Festival championship, adopted by Memphis after ending second to Auburn in Maui.
No. 18 Pittsburgh, No. 19 Illinois, No. 21 Oklahoma — which received the Atlantis title — and San Diego State had been the week’s different new additions.
Farewell (for now)
Indiana (No. 14), Arkansas (No. 19), Creighton (No. 21), Xavier (No. 22), Arizona (No. 24) and Mississippi State (No. 25) fell out of the ballot.
Conference watch
The SEC led all conferences with eight ranked groups, adopted by the Big 12 with 5. The Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference every had three ranked groups, whereas the West Coast, American Athletic and Mountain West conferences every had one.
