Purdue pops back to No
Dec 18, 2023, 12:58 PM ET Purdue’s slide from No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25 guys’s college basketball survey ended up being brief.The Boilermakers headlined Monday’s latest poll for the 2nd time this season after beating former No. 1 Arizona over the weekend. The Wildcats had spent 2 weeks at No. 1 after Purdue’s loss to Northwestern ended the Boilermakers’stint at the top after one week.Editor’s Picks 1 Associated Purdue got 48 of 62 first-place votes in the most recent poll to leap from 3rd with the Arizona win, which marked the program’s first win versus a No. 1 team in 23 years. It likewise marked the current remarkable nonconference win to a résumé that currently includes ranked teams in Gonzaga, Tennessee and Marquette.Preseason No. 1 Kansas remained at No. 2 with 6 first-place votes, while Houston went up one spot to No. 3 and had the other eight votes. Arizona fell to fourth.Team Tape 1
. Purdue(48 )10-1 2. Kansas( 6)10-1 3. Houston(8) 11-0 4. Arizona 8-1 5. UConn 10-1 6. Marquette 9-2 7. Oklahoma 10-0 8. Tennessee 8-3 9.
| Kentucky 8-2 10. Baylor 9-1 11. North Carolina 7-3 12 | |||
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| . Creighton 9-2 13. Illinois 8-2 | |||
| 14. Florida Atlantic | 9-2 15. Gonzaga 8-3 16 | . Colorado State | 10-1 |
| 17. BYU 10-1 18. Clemson 9-1 19. Texas | 8-2 20. James Madison | 10-0 21. Duke 7-3 22. | Virginia |
| 9-1 23. Memphis 8-2 | 24. Wisconsin 8-3 25. Ole Miss 10-0 UConn, Marquette | ||
| , Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky | |||
| and Baylor | completed the | ||
| leading 10. Of that group, the | Sooners are making their very first appearance inside the top 10 since February 2021. The Wildcats split the leading | ||
| 10 for the first time this season after | |||
| beating North Carolina in the CBS | |||
| Sports Classic.MOVING UP; MOVING DOWN Kentucky’s five-spot rise marked the most significant dive of the week. Oklahoma and | Tennessee were next with four areas to push inside the top 10 | , while No. 13 Illinois rose three spots. In all, 10 teams climbed | |
| from last | week’s poll.No. 15 Gonzaga and No. 18 Clemson took the biggest tumbles, with each falling 5 spots after losses. Baylor | ||
| , which lost in | a blowout | ||
| to Michigan State, and No. 12 Creighton were next, falling 4 areas. A total of seven groups slid from recently’s rankings.STATUS QUO Six teams held their position from recently, including UConn, No. 19 Texas, No. 20 James Madison, No. 21 Duke and No. 22 Virginia.WELCOME ABOARD No. 23 Memphis and No. 25 Ole Miss were the week’s brand-new additions.Memphis handed Clemson its very first loss after a 9-0 start to jump into the rankings for the first
time this season.As for Ole Miss, the Rebels(10-0 )are off to their finest start because opening at 13-0 in 2007-08. The program, in its first season under Chris Beard, is ranked for the very first time since January 2019. Miami(No. 24)and Northwestern(No. 25 )fell out from last week.CONFERENCE WATCH The Huge 12 led all conferences with 6 ranked groups, consisting of No. 17 BYU. The Atlantic Coast Conference was next with four groups, followed by 3 each for the Big East, Big Ten and Southeastern conferences.The American Athletic Conference had 2 ranked teams, while the Pac-12, West Coast, Mountain West and Sun Belt conferences each had one. |