UConn drops 23 areas in AP survey; Kansas No
Kansas held off Auburn for the No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 guys’s college basketball poll Monday as Southeastern Conference groups grabbed three of the top four areas and two-time ruling nationwide champion UConn nearly fell out totally after an 0-3 week at the Maui Invitational.The Jayhawks earned 35 of 61 first-place votes in the survey, while the Tigers got the staying 26 and climbed two spots to No. 2 after winning the Maui title. The Huskies fell all the method to No. 25, barely avoiding ending up being just the second team to go from No. 2 to unranked in a week in almost 4 decades.Team Tape 1. Kansas(35)7-0 2. Auburn (26 )7-0 3.
| Tennessee | 7-0 4. Kentucky 7-0 | |
|---|---|---|
| 5. | Marquette 8-0 6 | |
| . Iowa State 5-1 7. Gonzaga 7-1 8 | ||
| . Purdue 7-1 | 9. Duke 5-2 10. Alabama 6-2 11. | Wisconsin 8-0 12. Oregon 8-0 |
| 13. Florida 8-0 14. Cincinnati 6-0 | ||
| 15. Baylor | 5-2 | |
| 16. Memphis 6-1 | 17. | |
| Houston | 4-3 | |
| 18. Pittsburgh 7-1 19. Illinois | ||
| 6-1 20. North Carolina 4-3 21 | ||
| . Oklahoma 7-0 | 22. | |
| Texas A&M 6-2 | 23. | |
| Mississippi 6-1 | 24. | |
| San Diego State 4-2 25. UConn 5-3 It became part of a turbulent week with holiday week | ||
| tournaments | , leading | |
| to six new groups entering the rankings.Kansas(7-0), which beat Duke last week, had actually | increased its margin on the No. 2-ranked group weekly considering that | |
| the preseason survey | and | |
| had a 107-point margin on | ||
| the Huskies last | week. But | |
| with the Tigers– ranked No. 1 in KenPom’s | ||
| metrics– | beating ranked |
Iowa State and North Carolina teams in the Maui title run, that margin is simply nine points this week.Auburn was signed up with by fellow SEC
schools No. 3 Tennessee and No. 4 Kentucky, with each group climbing up 4 areas. Marquette was next at No. 5, followed by Iowa State, Gonzaga, Purdue, Duke and Alabama to complete the top 10. UConn’s slide The Huskies (5-3)had won 17 straight games entering the Maui Invitational, but things quickly went awry with an opening-round overtime loss to Memphis in a game that had coach Dan Hurley fuming about officiating. UConn lost the next day to Colorado, then lost to Dayton in the seventh-place game to complete last in the prestigious tournament.It was similar to No. 2 Arizona’s 0-3 crash at the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas in November 2017.
But the Huskies
avoided the same poll fate as the Wildcats, who ended up being the first string to go from No. 2 to unranked in a week given that Louisville in November 1986 after its tournament flop in the Excellent Alaska Shootout.Rising and falling While Oregon leapt 26 areas to get in the AP Top 25, Marquette, Purdue and No. 13 Florida had the week’s most significant climbs within the poll, each rising 5 spots. No. 11 Wisconsin joined Tennessee and Kentucky with four-spot jumps as 10 teams increased from their spots in last week’s poll.Editor’s Picks 
1 Related In all, 7 teams fell from recently’s poll.While UConn’s tumble stood out, No. 17 Houston fell 11 spots after losses to Alabama and now-No. 24 San Diego State in the Players Era Celebration in Las Vegas.North Carolina likewise had a huge fall, sliding eight areas to No. 20
after losses to
Auburn and Michigan State in Maui. Gonzaga toppled four spots to seventh after losing its Battle 4 Atlantis opener to West Virginia.Status quo No. 23 Mississippi signed up with Kansas as the only groups to hold their position from last week.Welcome Oregon led the week’s 6 brand-new teams after beating Alabama to win the Players Age Festival championship, followed by Memphis after completing 2nd to Auburn in Maui.No. 18 Pittsburgh, No. 19 Illinois, No. 21 Oklahoma– which won the Atlantis title– and San Diego State were the week’s other
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 poll.Conference watch The SEC led all conferences with 8 ranked groups, followed by the Huge 12 with five. The Big 10 and Atlantic Coast Conference each had 3 ranked groups, while
the West Coast, American Athletic and Mountain West conferences each had one.