Kansas Jayhawks drop one spot in this week’s Associated Press men’s basketball poll
Kansas, which lost to then-No. 10-ranked Baylor, 80-70, on Saturday in Waco, Texas after defeating Kansas State, 102-83 on Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse, has moved from No. 5 to No. 6 in this week’s Associated Press men’s college basketball poll.
Gonzaga (24-3) kept the top spot despite losing to Saint Mary’s, 67-57, on Saturday night. That’s because seven of the top nine teams in the poll (No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 2 Arizona, No. 3 Auburn, No. 4 Purdue, No. 5 KU, No. 6 Kentucky, No. 9 Texas Tech) lost on Saturday.
The top six teams in the AP poll lost on the same day for the first time in history.
Gonzaga received 46 first-place votes and tallied 1,504 points Monday. The other first-place votes went to new No. 3 Baylor (four, 1,342 points) and No. 4 Duke (11, 1,306 points).
Here’s this week’s poll: Gonzaga is No. 1, followed by Arizona (25-3), Baylor (24-5), Duke (25-4), Auburn (25-4), KU (23-5), Kentucky (23-6), Purdue (24-5), Providence (24-3), Wisconsin (23-5), Villanova (21-7), Texas Tech (22-7), Tennessee (21-7), Arkansas (23-6), Houston (24-4), USC (25-4), UCLA (21-6), UConn (21-7), Saint Mary’s (24-6), Illinois (20-8), Texas (21-8), Murray State (28-2), Ohio State (18-8), Iowa (20-8) and Alabama (19-10).
Others receiving votes: Boise State, Davidson, Colorado State, South Dakota State, Notre Dame, LSU, Michigan State, San Diego State, Marquette, Iowa State, North Texas, Vermont and Northern Iowa.
KU will next play TCU at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Fort Worth, Texas.
