When Missouri visits Kansas on Saturday, it will mark the first game between the teams as top-five programs since 1990.
The teams held their positions in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 and the USA Today/ESPN coaches’ poll. The Tigers were third in both polls, the Jayhawks fourth in the AP poll and fifth in the coaches poll.The Border War rivals meet Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. But both have tests before then.The Tigers, 25-2, play host to Kansas State on Tuesday. The Wildcats are coming off a victory at Baylor and handed Mizzou its worst loss of the season, 75-59 on Jan. 7.Kansas, 22-5, plays at Texas A&M on Wednesday. The Jayhawks held off the Aggies 64-54 in Lawrence on Jan. 23.In 1990, Missouri beat Kansas twice in the program’s only other top-five meetings.In the Big 12 era, Saturday will mark the teams’ eighth meeting as ranked teams. Kansas has won six of those games. But Missouri won the most recent encounter, 74-71 earlier this month in Columbia.Read more Kansas State University
Posted on Mon, Feb. 20, 2012 02:04 PM
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MU, KU remain unchanged in polls
AP Top 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 19, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Kentucky (63) | 26-1 | 1,623 | 1 |
| 2. Syracuse (2) | 27-1 | 1,559 | 2 |
| 3. Missouri | 25-2 | 1,498 | 3 |
| 4. Kansas | 22-5 | 1,377 | 4 |
| 5. Duke | 23-4 | 1,359 | 5 |
| 6. Michigan State | 22-5 | 1,317 | 7 |
| 7. North Carolina | 23-4 | 1,261 | 8 |
| 8. Ohio State | 22-5 | 1,139 | 6 |
| 9. Georgetown | 20-5 | 1,085 | 10 |
| 10. Marquette | 22-5 | 1,013 | 12 |
| 11. Michigan | 20-7 | 869 | 17 |
| 12. Florida | 21-6 | 860 | 14 |
| 13. Baylor | 22-5 | 859 | 9 |
| 14. Murray State | 26-1 | 765 | 16 |
| 15. Florida State | 19-7 | 620 | 20 |
| 16. Wisconsin | 20-7 | 615 | 15 |
| 17. Louisville | 21-6 | 495 | 19 |
| 18. New Mexico | 22-4 | 469 | — |
| 19. Wichita State | 24-4 | 467 | 24 |
| 20. Notre Dame | 19-8 | 457 | 23 |
| 21. UNLV | 22-6 | 325 | 11 |
| 22. Temple | 21-5 | 281 | — |
| 23. Indiana | 20-7 | 246 | 18 |
| 24. San Diego State | 20-6 | 176 | 13 |
| 25. Virginia | 20-6 | 153 | 22 |
Others receiving votes: Creighton 76, Gonzaga 47, BYU 29, Saint Louis 25, Drexel 13, Harvard 12, Vanderbilt 12, California 11, Saint Mary’s (Calif.) 7, Long Beach St. 4, VCU 1.
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