It was a noisy week in college hoops -- but only outside of the Associated Press' top 10 teams in its weekly poll. Nos. 1-10 remain the same this week, with Duke, Michigan, Tennessee and Virginia all still sitting at 1-4 in the rankings and all still receiving first-place votes. Beyond the top 10, there's a lot of movement. Kentucky bumps up from No. 18 to No. 12. Marquette moves up from 21st to 15th. Houston slips from 17th to 21st. Mississippi State takes a big step back from No. 14 to No. 24. The Big Ten and ACC remain potent in the rankings, though. Ten of the 25 teams ranked this week come from those two leagues, with the four teams just outside the rankings also being ACC or Big Ten affiliates. A few big games await this week between ranked teams: No. 9 Virginia Tech plays at No. 4 Virginia on Tuesday night; No. 14 Auburn hosts No. 12 Kentucky and Virginia plays at No. 1 Duke on Saturday. AP Top 25 Others receiving votes: Louisville 112, Nebraska 36, Ohio St. 34, Wisconsin 31, Iowa St. 20, UCF 17, Purdue 16, Kansas St 14, St. John's 12, TCU 12, Murray St. 9, Washington 8, Arizona 8, LSU 7, Seton Hall 6, South Carolina 6, Temple 5, Minnesota 3, Wofford 2, Cincinnati 2, Florida 1, Hofstra 1.<doc-sep>Donald Page/Getty Images When Duke lost to Syracuse, it looked like Michigan would finally ascend to No. 1. Wisconsin ended those hopes. Instead, Tennessee has reached the sport's apex for the first time under Rick Barnes. The Volunteers survived a scare from Alabama to bring their winning streak to 12 games and take the top ranking in the latest Associated Press poll. Tennessee is followed by Duke, which stuck around at the No. 2 spot thanks to a 72-70 win over Virginia. Virginia, Gonzaga and Michigan round out the Top Five. Here's a look at how the entire rankings played out: 1. Tennessee 2. Duke 3. Virginia 4. Gonzaga Video Play Button Videos you might like 5. Michigan 6. Michigan State 7. Nevada 8. Kentucky 9. Kansas 10. Virginia Tech 11. North Carolina 12. Marquette 13. Maryland 14. Texas Tech 15. Buffalo 16. Auburn 17. Houston 18. Villanova 19. Iowa 20. Ole Miss 21. NC State 22. Mississippi State 23. Louisville 24. Iowa State 25. LSU A week after no Top 10 team suffered a defeat, six dropped at least one game over the last seven days. Texas Tech had the worst fate as upset losses to Baylor and Iowa State dropped the Red Raiders six spots to No. 14. Kansas was also upended in a trip to lowly West Virginia, which opened its Big 12 slate with five straight losses. Bob Huggins' bunch caused 18 Jayhawks turnovers and scored the final seven points of their 65-64 triumph. "It's just a matter of being mentally tough enough to do the right things," Huggins told reporters. "I'm just happy to win. This isn't where we thought we'd be." The damage didn't stop inside the Top 10. Florida State, which moved up two spots last week despite a loss to Duke, descends all the way out of the Top 25 after losing at Pitt and Boston College. The Seminoles have dropped four of their last five games since a 12-1 start. "Anytime you start with your first three games on the road, you can get in a big hole this early in the season," Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton told reporters. Florida State's drop was the biggest of the week. Indiana also moved out of the Top 25 following a loss to Purdue. Louisville and LSU returned to the rankings.<doc-sep>A full look at the newest AP Top 25, where the top 10 schools are the same as last week but there are plenty of changes after that: RANK SCHOOL RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS 1 Duke (36) 14-1 1,558 1 2 Michigan (9) 17-0 1,497 2 3 Tennessee (13) 14-1 1,482 3 4 Virginia (6) 15-0 1,473 4 5 Gonzaga 16-2 1,315 5 6 Michigan State 15-2 1,292 6 7 Kansas 14-2 1,188 7 8 Texas Tech 15-1 1,157 8 9 Virginia Tech 14-1 1,091 9 10 Nevada 16-1 1,015 10 11 Florida State 13-3 918 13 12 Kentucky 12-3 790 18 13 North Carolina 12-4 678 12 14 Auburn 12-3 669 11 15 Marquette 14-3 668 21 16 Buffalo 15-1 625 19 17 North Carolina State 14-2 586 15 18 Ole Miss 13-2 501 NR 19 Maryland 14-3 412 NR 20 Oklahoma 13-3 394 23 21 Houston 16-1 387 17 22 Villanova 13-4 300 NR 23 Iowa 14-3 172 NR 24 Mississippi State 12-3 154 14 25 Indiana 12-4 116 22 We'll start with Kentucky, which is looking more and more like the championship contender we expected it to be coming into the season. The Wildcats are up to No. 12 after beating Texas A&M and Vanderbilt handily. One reason why Kentucky jumped six spots is because plenty of schools ranked in the teens last week struggled. But UK has been good lately, save for a tight road loss at Alabama. The defense has improved drastically. Kentucky was ranked in the 50s in defensive efficiency at KenPom after a loss to Seton Hall in December, but it's vaulted all the way up to No. 22 in less than a month. Quade Green is a nice player, but his decision to transfer has helped the Wildcats' role allocation. Ashton Hagans has developed into a sturdy two-way player after a rocky start to the season. Keldon Johnson continues to shine. P.J. Washington and Reid Travis looked like a clunky fit at the start of the year, but they're figuring each other out. Tennessee is still the team to beat in the SEC. But Kentucky will give the Volunteers a run. That Feb. 16. matchup can't come soon enough. Tennessee beats Florida, 78-67 The Big Ten went a little nuts this week, which is part of the reason why the bottom half of the poll looks so much different. Ohio State has lost three straight games, Wisconsin has faded after a rollicking start, and Nebraska has cooled off. This doesn't necessarily reflect negatively on the Big Ten. These teams all ran through their nonconference schedules, and we're seeing that almost every school in league is capable of notching a quality win on a given night. But, we're finding out that Michigan and Michigan State are in a tier above the rest of the conference. A team like Wisconsin can beat either of them in a 40-minute game, but the Wolverines and the Spartans will battle it out for the conference crown. Beyond that duo, the league is chaos. MORE: NCAA.com college hoops home That chaos opened the door for some new schools to slide into the top 20. A few we'll highlight: No. 15 Marquette and No. 18 Ole Miss. Markus Howard would be a legitimate Naismith candidate most years, but this season's race is as stacked as any. He dropped 53 on Creighton and the Golden Eagles are now 14-3 with a 3-1 Big East record. They're the highest-ranked team in the conference. Aside from Howard, balance has been key for Marquette. It hasn't been that way in recent years. The Golden Eagles finished 12th in offense and 182nd in defense in 2017-18; they're 38th and 40th in those departments this season, respectively. Theo John has been a revelation for the defense. You'd like to see some scorers emerge to complement Howard, but Marquette is good enough to win the Big East. Villanova is coming (which we'll touch on soon) but Howard plus good defense is a solid winning formula. No. 2 Michigan is 17-0 after win over Northwestern And what a story Ole Miss has been. The Rebels were picked to finish last in the preseason SEC poll, but are 13-2 and undefeated in conference play. Ole Miss has won nine in a row including back-to-back wins over Auburn and Mississippi State. Andy Katz talks with Ole Miss Guard Terence Davis Kermit Davis has his team playing a pretty style of basketball. The Rebels are ranked 10th in effective field goal percentage and make 38.2 percent of their 3s. They don't have a superstar, but they move the ball well and don't have a weak link on offense (which is an underrated component of offense. Sometimes it's better to have five decent players than three good ones and two total non-factors). Ole Miss went 12-20 last season. There's reason to be excited about hoops in Oxford once again. MORE: Andy Katz's Power 36 rankings A few other tidbits: Villanova is ranked 22nd and is off to a 4-0 Big East start. The Wildcats are up to No. 11 in offensive efficiency. Marquette has been awesome, but it's hard to pick against Villanova in that league until someone else wins it. Maryland is ranked 19th after beating Minnesota and Indiana this week. It feels like there's going to be a revolving door of Big Ten schools in that range of the poll all season long. On that note, there's a clear difference between the top 10 teams and, well... everyone else. Someone in the top 10 will probably lose this week. But they're just more consistent on a night-to-night basis than the rest of the country, and it's a reason why the top of the AP Poll has remained more stagnant than most years. Duke, Michigan, Tennessee and Virginia are all no-brainer title contenders. In a sport where there's so much variance, they deserve tons of credit. There are some big games to look forward to this week. Here's to some more dramatic endings and miraculous performances.<doc-sep>NEW YORK — Utah earned its first appearance in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll in a decade entering at No. 21 on Monday. The Utes (16-1) were last ranked in the final poll of the 2008 season. They were one of four teams to enter the Top 25 after 13 ranked teams lost last week. Utah was joined by Florida State at 22, Texas A&M at 24 and Missouri at 25. RELATED: The 15 best remaining games on the 2019 women's basketball schedule While there was change at the bottom of the poll, the top eight teams stayed virtually the same with Notre Dame leading the way. The Fighting Irish received 22 first place votes from the 30-member national media panel. Baylor broke a tie with UConn for second, garnering seven top ballots. The Huskies got the other one and dropped to third. Louisville and Oregon rounded out the first five teams in the poll. Stanford is sixth, followed by Mississippi State, N.C. State, Oregon State and Marquette. It’s the first time that the Golden Eagles have ever been ranked this high. Tennessee dropped out of the poll after losing its fourth straight game last week. Minnesota, DePaul and Indiana also fell out of the Top 25. Women's basketball AP Top 25 rankings: RANK school points previous 1 Notre Dame (22) 735 1 2 Baylor (7) 713 T-2 3 Connecticut (1) 703 T-2 4 Louisville 651 4 5 Oregon 623 5 6 Stanford 608 6 7 Mississippi State 578 7 8 North Carolina State 549 8 9 Oregon State 472 10 10 Marquette 460 14 11 Maryland 442 9 12 Texas 376 11 13 Syracuse 358 12 14 Rutgers 343 T-20 15 Kentucky 331 16 16 Arizona State 265 19 17 Iowa 261 22 18 Gonzaga 258 13 19 South Carolina 245 15 20 Iowa State 145 18 21 Utah 138 NR 22 Florida State 134 NR 23 Michigan State 109 17 24 Texas A&M 45 NR 25 Missouri 43 NR Here are some other tidbits from the Top 25: YOUNG UTES: Utah is off to its best start since 1997 when the team won its first 16 games. With four freshmen on the roster getting significant time the future remains bright for the Utes, who head into a difficult part of their schedule with home games this weekend against Cal and Stanford before heading up to face Oregon and Oregon State next weekend. The one loss came against No. 16 Arizona State. Utah had a 6-point lead with 1:20 to go in that game before falling at the buzzer. The team also lost it starting point guard to an ACL injury. Coach Lynne Roberts wasn’t sure how her squad would respond 36 hours later when facing Arizona and the team responded with a rout of Arizona. “It was one of my more proud moments,” Roberts said. RISING RUTGERS: The 14th-ranked Scarlet Knights remained unbeaten in the Big Ten with a win over then-No. 17 Michigan State on Sunday. Rutgers moved up six spots this week in the poll and has its best ranking since it was 13th on Jan. 30, 2012. The Scarlet Knights have won 10 consecutive games overall. “I’m doing my best to put the blinders on,” Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer said. “Just focus and enjoy the moment until we’ve come to a spot where we’ve worked hard for something and we’re there.” MORE: Stanford's Tara VanDerveer wins 900th game at Stanford TENNESSEE WOES: The Lady Vols fell out of rankings for the third time in the past four years. Tennessee, which is in the midst of its longest losing streak since 1970, saw its run of 31 years being ranked end in 2016. The Lady Vols re-entered the Top 25 at the start of the next season before dropping out in the first week of December that season. They came back in the poll on Feb. 6, 2017, and had been ranked ever week since until Monday. BIG EAST PRIDE: Marquette reaching 10th is the highest a team has been ranked in the Big East since the conference split up a few years back. The last time a current member of the Big East was in the top 10 was the preseason poll of 2011 when Georgetown was 10th. 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Zion Williamson leaves late in the first half with an eye injury, but Cam Reddish's last-second 3-pointer propels Duke past Florida State 80-78. (1:57) RALEIGH, N.C. -- Duke remained firmly entrenched at No. 1 for a fourth straight week in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll, which was enough to give its Hall of Fame coach another record. AP Top 25 poll First-place votes in parentheses Team Rec Last 1. Duke (36) 14-1 1 2. Michigan (9) 17-0 2 3. Tennessee (13) 14-1 3 4. Virginia (6) 15-0 4 5. Gonzaga 16-2 5 6. Michigan St. 15-2 6 7. Kansas 14-2 7 8. Texas Tech 15-1 8 9. Virginia Tech 14-1 9 10. Nevada 16-1 10 11. Florida St. 13-3 13 12. Kentucky 12-3 18 13. North Carolina 12-4 12 14. Auburn 12-3 11 15. Marquette 14-3 21 16. Buffalo 15-1 19 17. NC State 14-2 15 18. Mississippi 13-2 - 19. Maryland 14-3 - 20. Oklahoma 13-3 23 21. Houston 16-1 17 22. Villanova 13-4 - 23. Iowa 14-3 - 24. Mississippi St. 12-3 14 25. Indiana 12-4 22 Complete rankings The Blue Devils led an unchanged top 10 in Monday's AP Top 25 and spent their sixth week on top this season. That gave coach Mike Krzyzewski his 122nd week at No. 1 in the AP poll, breaking a tie with the late UCLA coach John Wooden for the most in poll history. Duke had set a program record for most weeks at No. 1 in the AP poll in November, also by passing UCLA. The Blue Devils stayed at No. 1 after Atlantic Coast Conference road wins at Wake Forest and Florida State, the latter coming on a last-second 3-pointer by freshman Cam Reddish. Duke received 36 of 64 first-place votes entering a week that will see the Blue Devils host No. 4 Virginia in a marquee league matchup between ACC favorites. THE TOP TIER Behind Duke, second-ranked and unbeaten Michigan earned nine first-place votes, third-ranked Tennessee had 13 and Virginia -- the only other unbeaten team -- had the remaining six. That quartet is significantly ahead of the rest of the field, with the gap between the Cavaliers and No. 5 Gonzaga (158 points) being bigger than that between Duke and Virginia (85 points). Michigan State, Kansas, Texas Tech, Virginia Tech and Nevada rounded out the rest of the top 10 for a second straight week. RISING The changes started from there after a week that saw 12 of the 15 teams outside the top 10 lose at least once, with five of those losing twice, and combining for 17 losses. Five teams rose in the new poll, starting with FSU climbing two spots to No. 11 despite the loss to Duke. No. 12 Kentucky was next, joining No. 15 Marquette as the week's biggest climbers by rising six spots. No. 16 Buffalo and No. 20 Oklahoma (which lost to Texas Tech last week) each rose three spots. SLIDING Six teams fell in this week's poll, most notably No. 24 Mississippi State. The Bulldogs lost to South Carolina and Mississippi last week, then fell 10 spots for the biggest slide among ranked teams in this week's poll. No. 21 Houston fell four spots after suffering its first loss of the season, which came against Temple. No. 14 Auburn and No. 25 Indiana each fell three spots, No. 17 North Carolina State slid two and No. 13 North Carolina fell one after winning on the road against the Wolfpack, followed by suffering its worst home loss under coach Roy Williams, which came against Louisville. THE NEWCOMERS Mississippi had a big week by beating Auburn before its victory over Mississippi State. That was enough to get the Rebels back into the poll at No. 18, the program's first ranking since spending two weeks in the AP Top 25 in January 2013. Pretty good for a team that didn't receive a single vote from the panel only a week earlier. Three teams -- No. 19 Maryland, No. 22 Villanova and No. 23 Iowa -- returned to the poll after appearances earlier this season. FALLING OUT Ohio State (No. 16), Iowa State (No. 20), St. John's (No. 24) and TCU (No. 25) fell out of the rankings after each lost twice last week. CONFERENCE WATCH The ACC had a leading six teams in the AP Top 25, followed by the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten, which each tallied five.