Auburn No. 1 in AP males’s Leading 25 after Vols
Jan 13, 2025, 01:49 PM ET Auburn has reached No. 1 in The Associated Press guys’s basketball poll for its 2nd stint at the top in program history, while fellow Southeastern Conference program Georgia is in the rankings for the very first time in 14 years.Bruce Pearl’s Tigers(15-1 )declared 60 of 62 first-place votes to rise one spot Monday after previous No. 1 Tennessee suffered its first loss of the season, falling at Florida, to end a five-week reign at the top. Auburn has actually been No. 1 only as soon as before in the AP Top 25, during a three-week stint in January and February of 2022, and is the third team to sit atop the poll this season.Auburn’s only loss came at Duke in early December and the Tigers have actually won 8 straight games, though there is no word on when star forward Johni Broome might be prepared to play after suffering an ankle injury in Saturday’s win over South Carolina.Team Record 1. Auburn 15-1 (60)2. Iowa St.14-1 3. Duke 14-2 (1 )4. Alabama 14-2 5. Florida 15-1( 1)6. Tennessee 15-1 7. Marquette 14-2 8.
| Kentucky 13-3 9. Kansas 12-3 10. Houston 12-3 11 | . Texas A&M 13-3 12. Michigan St.14-2 13. Oregon 15-2 14 | ||
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| . UConn 13-4 15. Mississippi St.14-2 16. Gonzaga 14-4 17. Purdue 13-4 18. Memphis 13-3 19 | |||
| . Illinois 12-4 | 20. Michigan 13-3 21. Mississippi 14-2 22. Utah St.16-1 23. | Georgia 14-2 24. Wisconsin | 13-3 |
| 25. Baylor 11-4 The | Tigers’rise made them the headliner in | another SEC-heavy poll, with the league having 9 | |
| teams in the AP Top 25– including three of the | leading 5 and five of the top 10. | ||
| Iowa State increased one | area | ||
| to No. 2, reaching | its greatest ranking in program history, followed by | ||
| Duke, Alabama and Florida. | Heaven Devils and Gators each claimed | a first-place vote.The top tier The Volunteers | (15-1)had |
| been No. 1 because Dec. 9 and stood as | Department I | ||
| ‘s last unbeaten team before a | |||
| 30-point loss to Florida. They recovered by beating Texas but still | toppled five areas to | No. 6. Marquette was next at | |
| No. 7 as the only team | to stay at the same area from recently, | followed by Kentucky, preseason No. 1 Kansas and Houston to round out the top 10. Rising No. 12 Michigan State and No. 20 Michigan had the week’s most significant dives, both increasing four spots. Florida and No. 17 Purdue were next by climbing three positions.In all, 15
teams that were ranked last week went up in the current poll.Falling While Tennessee’s tumble was noteworthy, No. 19 Illinois had the week’s biggest slide by falling six spots after a weekend home loss to USC.Two-time reigning national champion UConn matched the Volunteers ‘five-spot decline, checking in at No. 14 after recently’s loss at Villanova.Six groups that were ranked last week moved down in Monday’s poll.Welcome No. 23 Georgia Bulldogs, No. 24 Wisconsin and No. 25 Baylor were the week’s additions. And for Georgia, it has been a while.Mike White’s Bulldogs (14-2)have their very first AP Top 25 ranking since spending a week at No. 24 in January 2011. That only look had actually stood as the program ‘s only time being ranked considering that the 2002-03 season, however the Bulldogs are coming off a week that included wins against then-No. 6 Kentucky and then-No. 17 Oklahoma for the program’s very first back-to-back triumphes against ranked challengers because the 2006-07 season.Editor’s Picks Both the Badgers and Bears have spent several weeks in the poll this season.Farewell(for now)West Virginia(No. 21)and UCLA (No. 22 )joined the Sooners in falling out of this week’s poll.Conference watch The SEC– which had 10 ranked groups Dec. 23 and Dec. 30– had nine ranked groups for the 5th time this season, consisting of No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 15 Mississippi State and No. 21 Mississippi.The Big Ten was next with 6, followed by the Big 12 with 4. The Big East had two, followed by the Atlantic Coast, West Coast, American Athletic and Mountain West conferences with one each. |