UConn 1st consentaneous No
Feb 19, 2024, 01:26 PM ET
UConn became the first consentaneous No. 1 in The Associated Press males’s college basketball survey this season, while Washington State jumped into the rankings Monday at No. 21 to end a 302-week drought stretching back to the 2007-08 season.The Huskies
stayed atop the survey for the sixth consecutive week after a blowout of DePaul and an outstanding 81-53 win over then-No. 4 Marquette over the weekend. They received all 62 first-place votes from a panel of national media members, scooping up the 16 first-place votes Purdue lost when the Boilermakers fell to Ohio State on Sunday.Team Overall Points
| 1. UConn(62 )24-2 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| . Houston 22-3 | 3. Purdue 23-3 4. Arizona | 20-5 |
| 5. Tennessee 19-6 6. Iowa | ||
| State 20-5 | ||
| 7. Marquette | 19-6 | |
| 8. Duke 20-5 | ||
| 9. Kansas 20-6 10. North Carolina 20-6 11 | ||
| . Baylor 19-6 12. Illinois 19-6 13 | ||
| . Alabama 18-7 | 14. Auburn | |
| 20-6 15. Creighton 19-7 16. | Dayton 21-4 17. Kentucky 18-7 18. Saint Mary | |
| ‘s 21-6 19. San Diego State 20-6 20. South Carolina 21-5 21. | ||
| Washington | State 20-6 | |
| 22. Colorado State 20-6 23. Texas Tech 18-7 24. Florida 18-7 | 25. BYU 18-7 UConn is riding the second-longest streak at No. 1 in school history | behind a 10-week |
| stay during the 1998-99 season, when | ||
| the group coached by Jim Calhoun and led by Richard Hamilton and Khalid El-Amin beat Duke | for the nationwide | |
| champion.”All | we can control is | |
| taking a champion technique to the next | ||
| game,”said UConn coach Dan Hurley | ||
| , whose group was the No. 2 |
general seed behind Purdue in the very first appearance offered by the NCAA tournament selection committee over the weekend.UConn has actually won 14 straight games, the longest streak in males’s Division I basketball.”We simply speak about a championship-level approach, mentality, execution,”stated Hurley, whose group is aiming for the very first repeat national championship considering that Florida in 2006-07.” We’re not going to talk about standings. There’s no reason to speak about that.”Houston rode an easy win versus Texas over the weekend into the second area ahead of Purdue, while Arizona moved up one area into fourth and Tennessee climbed three spots to round out
the top five.Iowa State ran its winning streak to 4 straight in the rugged Huge 12 with wins over Cincinnati and Texas Tech recently, and that sent the Cyclones up 4 spots to No. 6. That’s the greatest the program has actually been ranked given that Dec. 14, 2015. Marquette dropped 3 spots following its
loss to the Huskies and was seventh. Duke was eighth, Kansas fell three positions to ninth after a lopsided loss to Texas Tech and a win over Oklahoma, and North Carolina rounded out the top 10. Baylor was 11th and was followed by Illinois, Alabama, Auburn and Creighton. Dayton sat tight at No. 16, with Kentucky up 5 spots to No. 17. Saint Mary’s was next after extending its winning streak to 13 games, and San Diego State jumped back into the poll at No. 19. South Carolina
fell nine areas to No. 20 after losses to Auburn and LSU.There were 4 newcomers or returning teams amongst the final five on Monday: Washington State at No. 21, followed by Colorado State, Texas Tech and Florida. BYU fell six spots however held down the final position in the Top 25.
Washington State, which has actually won 7 directly, returned to the survey for the first time given that it was No. 21 in the last ranking of the 2007-08 season. That group reached the Sugary food 16 before losing to Final Four individual North Carolina.The Cougars ‘very first test as a ranked group will be a journey to No. 4 Arizona on Thursday night. “It’s the hardest location to play in the nation,”Washington State coach Kyle Smith said.”They’re going to have a really excellent crowd. You’re going to have to deal with the onslaught. There’s going to be a great deal of juice in the structure. That’s the No. 1 obstacle– can we deal with that environment? However it’s an advantage. Pressure is a benefit.” IN AND OUT The volatility that has actually marked the back half of the poll all season continued this week. The Aztecs, Cougars, Rams, Red Raiders and Gators all moved into the ranking at the expenditure of Virginia, Wisconsin, Florida Atlantic, Indiana State and Oklahoma.The Badgers have been in totally free fall because reaching 6th the final week of January, losing five of their last 6. FAU reached No. 7 the last week of December before last season’s NCAA competition beloved finally slipped from the survey altogether.RISING AND FALLING Kentucky made the greatest dive among teams that were ranked recently, using impressive wins over Ole Miss and then-No. 13 Auburn to climb up 5 areas to No. 17. Iowa State leapt 4 positions to land at sixth.South Carolina’s wild trip also continued today. The Gamecocks vaulted from out of the survey to No. 15 2 weeks back, moved up four spots to No. 11 recently, then dropped 9 spots to No. 20 after a set of losses last week.CONFERENCE WATCH The SEC moved into a tie with the Big 12 for the most teams
in the poll with 6 each. The Big East had 3, while the Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC and Mountain West each had two teams in the Leading 25.