Last week's AP Top 25 shakeup vaulted Virginia into the No. 1 spot for the first time since 1982, and the Cavaliers held steady atop this week's poll with 42 of 65 first-place votes. Madness inside the top 10 this past week however produced a scramble beneath them with a brand new order from 5-10.
Altogether, the top 10 teams last week stumbled to a combined 10-9 overall -- headlined by an 0-2 week for both Cincinnati and Ohio State and a 1-1 week for Villanova, Xavier, Texas Tech and Purdue, giving us a new top 10 that includes appearances by North Carolina, Kansas and Duke.
Michigan State, which mounted an historic comeback on Saturday to stun Northwestern, remained at No. 2 in this week's poll and Villanova and Xavier kept its spots at 3 and 4. The Spartans garnered 19 first-place votes behind Virginia. Villanova received four first-place votes.
AP Top 25 poll
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
RANK | SCHOOL | RECORD | POINTS | PREVIOUS |
1 | Virginia (42) | 24-2 | 1,601 | 1 |
2 | Michigan State (19) | 26-3 | 1,565 | 2 |
3 | Villanova (4) | 24-3 | 1,509 | 3 |
4 | Xavier | 24-4 | 1,398 | 4 |
5 | Duke | 22-5 | 1,292 | 12 |
6 | Texas Tech | 22-5 | 1,206 | 7 |
7 | 25-4 | 1,206 | 9 | |
8 | Kansas | 21-6 | 1,166 | 13 |
9 | Purdue | 24-5 | 1,130 | 6 |
10 | North Carolina | 21-7 | 1,074 | 14 |
11 | Cincinnati | 23-4 | 954 | 5 |
12 | 23-4 | 873 | 10 | |
13 | 21-5 | 870 | 19 | |
14 | 21-6 | 831 | 17 | |
15 | 20-6 | 683 | 11 | |
16 | Ohio State | 22-7 | 680 | 8 |
17 | 22-7 | 615 | 22 | |
18 | 21-4 | 455 | 16 | |
19 | 19-7 | 427 | 18 | |
20 | 23-5 | 330 | 24 | |
21 | 19-8 | 329 | 20 | |
22 | 25-4 | 291 | 15 | |
23 | 21-5 | 263 | -- | |
24 | 22-5 | 87 | -- | |
25 | 19-8 | 63 | -- |
Others receiving votes: Baylor 52, Kentucky 33, Arizona St 32, Arkansas 23, UCLA 20, St. Bonaventure 13, Virginia Tech 12, Creighton 10, Penn St. 6, Kansas St 5, Missouri 5, Texas A&M 4, TCU 4, Butler 2, Loyola of Chicago 2, Alabama 1, Oklahoma 1, Boise St. 1, ETSU 1.