1 Tennessee The Vols extended their winning streak to 12 games via Saturday's victory over Alabama. UT's resume includes wins over Gonzaga and Louisville with the lone loss coming to Kansas in overtime. -- 18-9 2 Virginia The Cavaliers took their first loss of the season Saturday at Duke. Virginia is 5-1 vs. top-50 KenPom teams with wins over Virginia Tech and Maryland. -- 18-7 3 Gonzaga The Zags have won nine straight since losing consecutive games to Tennessee and North Carolina. Gonzaga's resume features five wins over top-55 KenPom teams - most notably a neutral-court victory over Duke in the Maui Invitational. -- 31-1 4 Duke The Blue Devils gave Virginia its first loss Saturday despite the fact that Tre Jones didn't play. Duke is 7-2 vs. top-50 KenPom teams with the losses coming to Gonzaga and Syracuse. -- 13-11 5 Michigan The Wolverines took their first loss of the season Saturday on the road to a six-loss Wisconsin team. Michigan is 4-1 against top-50 KenPom teams with wins over North Carolina, Villanova and Purdue. -- 23-5 6 Michigan St. The Spartans have won 11 straight since losing in overtime at Louisville. Michigan State's resume features nine wins over top-75 KenPom teams - among them road victories at Nebraska, Ohio State and Florida. -- 15-13 7 Kansas The Jayhawks' three-game winning streak was snapped Saturday at West Virginia. Kansas is 6-3 without Udoka Azubuike, who is out for the season with a hand injury. -- 21-9 8 Va. Tech The Hokies are 10-1 in their past 11 games with the lone loss in that stretch coming at Virginia. Three of Virginia Tech's next four games are on the road -- two of which are at North Carolina and at NC State. -- 15-7 9 Nevada Nevada's resume features seven wins over top-100 KenPom teams and a lone loss coming at New Mexico. The Wolf Pack will take a four-game winning streak into Wednesday's game with Colorado State. -- 16-10 10 N. Carolina The Tar Heels are 6-1 in their past seven games with road wins at NC State, Pitt and Miami. UNC is 8-4 vs. top-100 KenPom teams with zero sub-30 losses and wins over Gonzaga and at NC State. -- 18-11 11 Texas Tech The Red Raiders have dropped two straight but are still 7-3 against top-100 KenPom teams, with wins over Nebraska and Oklahoma. Next up is Tuesday's game at Kansas State. -- 18-11 12 Maryland The Terrapins' seven-game winning streak includes victories over Nebraska, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio State. Next up is Monday's game at Michigan State. -- 17-14 13 Marquette Sam Hauser and Markus Howard combined for 49 points in Sunday's win over Providence. Marquette's resume features four wins over top-50 KenPom teams and zero sub-50 losses. -- 13-14 14 Kentucky The Wildcats improved to 3-3 vs. top-100 KenPom teams via Saturday's win at Auburn. UK will take a four-game winning streak into Tuesday's game with Mississippi State -- 9-16 15 Auburn Auburn's loss at home to Kentucky on Saturday means the Tigers are 0-4 against the best four teams they've played this season. Auburn is 4-3 in its past seven games heading into Tuesday's contest at South Carolina. -- 13-14 16 Buffalo The Bulls' body of work features four wins over top-75 KenPom teams -- among them victories at Syracuse and West Virginia. The lone loss came seven games ago at Marquette. -- 16-9 17 Nebraska The Huskers' two-game winning streak was snapped Thursday by Michigan State. Four of Nebraska's five losses are to schools also ranked in the Top 25 And 1. -- 7-20 18 Houston The Cougars have won three straight since losing at Temple in the final seconds. Houston is 6-1 vs. top-100 KenPom teams with wins over LSU, Utah State and Oregon. -- 28-4 19 Ole Miss The Rebels are 11-1 in their past 12 games with victories over Auburn and Mississippi State. The lone loss in that stretch is a loss to an LSU team that's 14-3 and also ranked in the Top 25 And 1. -- 16-12 20 Miss. State The Bulldogs' resume features wins over five top-50 KenPom teams -- among them Florida, Cincinnati and Saint Mary's. Mississippi State has won two straight since losing to Ole Miss. -- 18-15 21 NC State The Wolfpack bounced back from a disappointing loss at Wake Forest by winning at Notre Dame on Saturday. NC State is 5-2 vs. top-100 KenPom teams with one sub-150 loss. -- 14-11 22 Villanova Villanova's six-game winning streak has allowed Jay Wright's team to start 5-0 in the Big East for the first time since 2016. The Wildcats are the only Big East school still without a league loss. -- 18-7 23 Louisville The Cardinals beat Georgia Tech by 28 points on Saturday to extend their winning streak to three games. Three of Louisville's five losses are to teams also ranked in the Top 25 And 1. -- 13-7 24 Purdue The Boilermakers are 6-1 in their past seven games with wins over Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana. Five of Purdue's six losses are losses to top-30 KenPom teams. -- 18-10 25 Iowa The Hawkeyes are 10-1 in their past 11 games with wins over Iowa State, Nebraska and Ohio State. Iowa will take a five-game winning streak into Thursday's game with Michigan State. -- 22-9<doc-sep>The Kentucky Wildcats are coming on strong, and that’s led to jumps in all of the major polls and rankings. Following a road win over a top-15 Auburn team, Kentucky now looks like a legitimate top-10 team that’s a real threat to make a deep run in March. The Wildcats now have one of the most impressive resumes in college hoops, which includes a neutral court win over a top-15 UNC team, a road domination of a top-25 Louisville team, and now, a road win over the a top-15 Tigers squad. The latest AP Poll has Kentucky checking in at the No. 8 spot. The Tennessee Volunteers are the new No. 1 team following their narrow home win over Alabama. Auburn fell to No. 16. Kentucky will host the No. 22 Mississippi State Bulldogs on Tuesday, then host the No. 9 Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday. That means Kentucky will have played three-straight top-25 foes by the end of this week. The Coaches Poll has Kentucky up to No. 9. Kansas checked in at No. 10, while Mississippi State is at No. 22. Tennessee is also No. 1 in this poll, while Auburn checked in at No. 15. Coaches Top 25 Poll AP Top 25 Poll Elsewhere, Jerry Palm now has Kentucky as a 2 seed in CBS Sports’ latest bracketology. It ends up being in the East Region in Washington, D.C., as Kentucky gets edged out by Kansas for the 2 seed in the South Region in Louisville. Perhaps that adds a little more incentive to beat the Jayhawks this week. Still, this projection has the 1 seed being Michigan, whereas the South Region No. 1 is Tennessee. I think a lot of Kentucky fans would rather play in the East vs. Michigan, though it’s hard to pass on playing in Louisville, no matter how challenging the path may be. Here is the full East Region in this projection: NCAA.com’s Power 36 ranking has Kentucky checking in at No. 8. Sports Illustrated has Kentucky checking in at No. 9 while also tabbing the Wildcats as a team on the rise: Cruising past Georgia on Tuesday was a welcome sign, but the Wildcats’ road win over Auburn on Saturday is what stands out as one of the week’s best victories. Tyler Herro and Keldon Johnson each poured in 20 points in Kentucky’s 82–80 win, leading the way for a 54% shooting performance from the field. The Wildcats’ offense is beginning to hit its stride as we approach February, improving over the year as most John Calipari squads do. Matchups against Mississippi State and Kansas are on the slate this week, quality tests for a roster that has yet to reach its potential. Rupp Arena will be rocking on Saturday night as Kentucky hosts the Jayhawks, providing an opportunity for the Wildcats’ best win of the year. The latest NBC Sports Top 25 has Kentucky rising up to the No. 7 spot. Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports has Kentucky at No. 7, while Seth Davis of The Athletic also has the Cats at CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish has Kentucky checking in at No. 14. ESPN’s latest power ranking (only 16 teams) now has the Cats at No. 9: Kentucky just might be hitting its stride as conference play heats up. The Wildcats went into Auburn on Saturday and knocked off the Tigers in a really complete offensive performance. Tyler Herro and Keldon Johnson both had 20 points, while Ashton Hagans scored just six -- but dished out six assists and grabbed seven rebounds. It was their most efficient offensive outing since mid-December vs. Utah. The Wildcats did climb up to the No. 8 spot in the latest NCAA NET rankings. That means if the NCAA Tournament began today, Kentucky would be in strong position for a No. 2 seed.<doc-sep>It was a wild week for college basketball fans with six of the Top 10 teams in the country taking losses in some capacity. Virginia and Michigan both had legitimate shots at the No. 1 overall ranking before losses at Duke and Wisconsin respectively. Texas Tech surprisingly lost two Big 12 games in a row while Kansas also suffered a defeat. The biggest surprise came for Duke with injury and illness both playing roles in the No. 1 team’s loss to an unranked Syracuse. What does it all mean for the AP rankings? The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes noted in parentheses, are determined by a points system. A team receives 25 points for a first-place vote, 24 points for a second-place vote and so on through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking.<doc-sep>Zion Williamson comes up with a steal and drives for a monstrous one-handed, 360 dunk that sends the Duke fans into a frenzy. (0:43) The top four in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll remained unchanged for the third straight week. The rest of the poll, however, underwent major changes after three top-10 teams lost. Duke remained at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 released Monday, receiving 37 of 64 first-place votes. No. 2 Michigan received nine first-place votes, No. 3 Tennessee 13 and No. 4 Virginia five. Then the jumble begins, thanks to losses by Kansas, Nevada and Florida State. AP Top 25 poll First-place votes in parentheses Team Rec Last 1. Duke (37) 12-1 1 2. Michigan (9) 15-0 2 3. Tennessee (13) 12-1 3 4. Virginia (5) 13-0 4 5. Gonzaga 14-2 7 6. Michigan St. 13-2 8 7. Kansas 12-2 5 8. Texas Tech 13-1 11 9. Virginia Tech 13-1 10 10. Nevada 14-1 6 11. Auburn 11-2 12 12. North Carolina 11-3 15 13. Florida St. 12-2 9 14. Mississippi St. 12-1 17 15. N.C. State 13-1 18 16. Ohio St. 12-2 14 17. Houston 15-0 19 18. Kentucky 10-3 13 19. Buffalo 13-1 20 20. Iowa St. 12-2 _ 21. Marquette 12-3 16 22. Indiana 12-3 21 23. Oklahoma 12-2 23 24. St. John's 14-1 _ 25. TCU 12-1 _ Complete rankings No. 5 Gonzaga, which is finally back to full health, and No. 6 Michigan State each moved up two spots. No. 7 Kansas dropped two spots after losing to Iowa State, which moved back into the poll at No. 20. No. 8 Texas Tech and No. 9 Virginia Tech each moved up after Nevada lost on the road to New Mexico and fell four places to No. 10. Florida State dropped four spots to No. 13 after being shut down by Virginia. In all, every team outside the top four changed positions except No. 23 Oklahoma, which split its games last week. Got all that? Kansas took the biggest hit last week, not only falling 77-60 to the Cyclones, but losing big man Udoka Azubuike for the rest of the season to a wrist injury. The Jayhawks already have been playing without sophomore forward Silvio De Souza, whose name surfaced in an FBI probe into shady recruiting practices, and the loss of Azubuike could put a dent in their national title hopes. Nevada passed every early season test it faced, entering last weekend as one of four undefeated teams left. After the Wolf Pack lost 85-58 to New Mexico, the number of undefeated teams is down to three: Michigan, Virginia and No. 17 Houston. "We just had a bad night all around," Nevada coach Eric Musselman said. "We had a bad night sharing the ball. We had a bad night defensively. Usually they're zoned in on the scoring report, but we let guys who are shooters take open shots and we didn't play who we are. Just a terrible game for all of us." Florida State entered ACC play on a roll, its only loss coming to defending national champion Villanova in late November. Then the Seminoles ran into Virginia's defensive buzz saw. The Cavaliers lead the nation in defensive scoring and shut Florida State down, holding the Seminoles to 15 field goals and 52 points in a 13-point win. RISING CYCLONES Iowa State coach Steve Prohm spent the early part of the season biding his team with several players out because of injuries. The Cyclones won two of three games at the Maui Invitational despite being down to eight scholarship players, and their only other loss came at Iowa in early December. Finally healthy, Iowa State (12-2, 2-0 Big Ten) picked up one of its biggest wins in four seasons under Prohm, blowing out Kansas in Ames on Saturday. "They're the standard in our league and the team we're all trying to catch," Prohm said. "It's a great win. I loved the way they competed." Iowa State moved back into the AP Top 25 this week after reaching No. 18 earlier this season. UNDEFEATED COUGARS While Michigan and Virginia get plenty of attention for remaining undefeated while playing in major conferences, Houston continues to keep its record unblemished. The Cougars had nonconference wins over Oregon, Oklahoma State and LSU, then opened the American Athletic Conference season with victories over Tulsa and Memphis last week. Houston faces Temple and Wichita State this week. MOVING IN No. 24 St. John's (14-1, 2-1 Big East) moved into the AP Top 25 for the first time since hitting No. 15 in 2014-15 after knocking off No. 21 Marquette and beating Georgetown in overtime last week. TCU, which was No. 20 in the preseason AP Top 25, returned to the poll at No. 25 this week following a home win over Baylor. MOVING OUT Wisconsin dropped out of the poll from No. 22 after losing to Minnesota and beating Penn State. Iowa, No. 25 last week, is out after losing to Purdue and beating Nebraska, which dropped out from No. 24.<doc-sep>
Here is a look at Florida State men's basketball in the latest polls and rankings: FSU moves up in the AP Top 25 Florida State went 1-1 over the past week, defeating Miami at home before suffering a last-second loss to No. 1 Duke. In this week's Associated Press Top 25, the Seminoles moved up from No. 13 to No. 11. A sign of respect for how close FSU came to taking down the nation's top team. On the season, the Seminoles are now 13-3, including a 1-2 mark in league play. Their losses have come to the Blue Devils, at Virginia and on a neutral court against Villanova. Duke remained at No. 1 for a fourth straight week while the top 10 remained unchanged in the latest AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll. Other opponents of note in the AP Top 25 include No. 4 Virginia, No. 9 Virginia Tech, No. 13 North Carolina, No. 17 N.C. State and No. 22 Villanova. The complete AP Top 25 poll can be found here. Here is a look at how the voters voted for FSU in the AP Top 25 Florida State checked in at No. 11 in the latest AP Top 25. Here is how the voters voted for the Seminoles in that Poll: FSU was placed anywhere from No. 8 to No. 20 overall. Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News voted FSU at No. 8. Jesse Newell of the Kansas City Star has FSU at No. 20. The most common spot for the Seminoles was at No. 11 where the Seminoles received 26 votes. No. 12, with 11 votes, was the second most popular spot. Dick Vitale, who was on the broadcast team for FSU vs. Duke, placed the Seminoles here on his ballot. Here is a complete breakdown of the placement for FSU in the poll on individual ballots: No. 8 - 1 ballot No. 9 - 3 ballots No. 10 - 9 ballots No. 11 - 26 ballots No. 12 - 11 ballots No. 13 - 6 ballots No. 14 - 4 ballots No. 15 - 2 ballots No. 19 - 1 ballot No. 20 - 1 ballot FSU also moves up in latest Coaches Poll Florida State also moved up in the latest USA Today Coaches Poll, which was released on Monday. The Seminoles went from No. 13 to No. 11 after this past week. Virginia remains ranked No. 1 in the Coaches Poll. Duke checks in at No. 2. Other teams of note include No. 7 Virginia Tech, No. 15 North Carolina, No. 16 N.C. State, and No. 21 Villanova. The complete Coaches Poll can be found here. Florida State in the updated NET Rankings Florida State is ranked No. 26 currently in the NET Rankings, which are provided by the NCAA and will be used as a metric in helping to seed the NCAA Tournament field. The NET Rankings largely replace the RPI rankings used in the past. FSU suffered their first home loss of the season on Saturday versus Duke. They are 8-1 in the Donald L. Tucker Center. They are 1-1 in true road games. They are 4-1 in neutral site games this season. The full NET rankings can be found here.