Top 5 unchanged in males’s survey; Vols climb to 7
Nov 25, 2024, 01:20 PM ET
Kansas remained solidly entrenched at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday ahead of its showdown with No. 11 Duke in Las Vegas, while a pair of schools from the Magnolia State elbowed their method back into the rankings.Ole Miss returned to the survey at No. 23 while Mississippi State made its season launching at No. 25. The Jayhawks got 51 of 62 first-place votes from the national panel of media, putting them well ahead of two-time ruling nationwide champ UConn, which was second with 6 first-place votes. Gonzaga was third with 2 first-place votes, Auburn was next with three, and Iowa State completed a leading 5 that was unchanged from the previous week.Team Rec.1. Kansas(51 )5-0 2. UConn( 6)4-0 3. Gonzaga (2) 5-0 4.
| Auburn(3) | 4-0 5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| . Iowa State 3-0 6 | . Houston | ||
| 3-1 7. Tennessee | 6-0 | ||
| 8. Kentucky 5-0 | |||
| 9. Alabama 4-1 10. Marquette 6-0 11. Duke 4-1 12 | . North Carolina 3-1 | 13. Purdue | 5-1 |
| 14. Indiana 4-0 15. | Wisconsin 7-0 16. Cincinnati 5-0 | ||
| 17. Baylor | 4-2 | ||
| 18. Florida 6-0 | |||
| 19. Arkansas 4-1 | |||
| 20. Texas A&M 4-1 21 | . Creighton 4-1 | ||
| 22. Xavier | 5-0 | ||
| 23. Ole Miss | 5-0 | ||
| 24. Arizona 2-2 25. Mississippi State 5-0 There’s a likelihood for motion next week, however, with a | host of prominent matches in vacation competitions, which | ||
| match in between the | Jayhawks | ||
| and Duke on Tuesday night in the Vegas Face-off. “Oh yeah, I | ‘ve | ||
| viewed them,”said Kansas coach Expense | |||
| Self, who picked up his 800th | |||
| career win by | beating UNC Wilmington recently.”They’re talented across the board. They’re beginning 3 freshmen, and everyone’s going to discuss [Cooper Flagg], however the other two are potential lottery picks, if not lottery chooses too.”So do the Jayhawks, who have actually already beaten No. 12 North Carolina and Michigan State this season.Tennessee climbed four spots to No. 7 in this week’s survey, followed by SEC competitors Kentucky and Alabama. Marquette was 10th after beating then-No. 6 Purdue and Georgia last week to reach 6-0 for the first time since the 2011-12 season.The Blue Devils and Tar Heels were followed by Purdue, which fell seven spots in the poll. Indiana and Wisconsin made it three straight Huge Ten schools, while Cincinnati, Baylor, Florida, Arkansas and Texas A&M completed the leading 20. The last five were Creighton,
Ole Miss, Arizona, Mississippi State and BYU. The Wildcats narrowly extended their run in the AP Top 25 to 61 weeks– the fourth-longest active streak in the country– after back-to-back losses to Wisconsin and Duke.”We didn’t play fantastic,”Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd stated after the loss to heaven Devils,”so now we need to take a step back and figure out why. Exist some schematic problems? Exist some problems with how our personnel is type of put together? And those are the important things we’re going to have a look at. I like the guys. I imply, I like the plan. But undoubtedly when it’s not going as well as you would like, you have to be sincere with yourself and try to figure it out.”Editor’s Picks 2 Related WHO’S IN; WHO’S OUT Xavier returned to the survey for the very first time because the last survey of the 2022-23 season ahead of its trip to the Fort Myers Tip-Off beginning Monday night. Ole Miss is back in the Top 25 after briefly dropping out, while Mississippi State is back after spending two weeks in the poll last November but just six weeks amount to over the previous 6 years.Those three gotten in at the expenditure of Illinois, St. John’s and Rutgers. The Illini lost to Alabama last week, while St. John’s fell to Baylor and Georgia. Rutgers lost 79-77 at Kennesaw State , which beat a ranked group for the first time in school history.RISING AND FALLING Marquette made the greatest climb this week, moving up five areas to No. 10. The Golden Eagles catch a breather today with Stonehill and Western Carolina before back-to-back showdowns with No. 5 Iowa State and No. 15 Wisconsin.Purdue, Creighton and Arizona all dropped seven areas however remained in the survey. The Boilermakers lost to Marquette while the Bluejays lost toin-state rival Nebraska. The Wildcats dropped to 2-2, the very first time they have been.500 at any point in a season because they were 3-3 to begin the 2017-18 season.CONFERENCE enjoy The SEC blazes a trail with 9 of the Leading 25 teams today, consisting of 4 in the top 10: Auburn, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. The Big 12 is next with six, consisting of 3 of the very first six in top-ranked Kansas, Iowa State and Houston. The Big East had four in the survey, the Big 10 three and the ACC two. |