Kansas up to No. 18 in AP Top 25
Kansas has moved up one spot to No. 18 in this week’s AP Top 25 with Saturday’s victory over California.
The Jayhawks (7-3) are the next-to-lowest ranked Big 12 team, ahead of just No. 25 Texas Tech (8-1). Other ranked teams in the conference include No. 7 Texas (7-2), No. 10 Oklahoma (6-2) and No. 16 Missouri (6-1). Oklahoma State and Iowa State also received votes.
Alabama (9-0) is still the top-ranked team, with 35 of 71 first-place votes. The rest of the top five are Pittsburgh (9-0), Duke (7-0), Arizona (6-1) and Connecticut (8-0).
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The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 29, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking
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| Record | Pts | Pv | |
| 1. Alabama (35) | 9-0 | 1,720 | 1 |
| 2. Pittsburgh (16) | 9-0 | 1,688 | 2 |
| 3. Duke (14) | 7-0 | 1,660 | 3 |
| 4. Arizona (5) | 6-1 | 1,578 | 4 |
| 5. Connecticut | 8-0 | 1,384 | 6 |
| 6. Notre Dame | 10-1 | 1,361 | 8 |
| 7. Texas | 7-2 | 1,237 | 9 |
| 8. Mississippi St. (1) | 8-1 | 1,133 | 16 |
| 9. Oregon | 9-1 | 1,131 | 11 |
| 10. Oklahoma | 6-2 | 1,051 | 5 |
| 11. Illinois | 8-1 | 1,029 | 7 |
| 12. Florida | 10-2 | 1,006 | 12 |
| 13. Marquette | 8-1 | 961 | 13 |
| 14. Michigan St. | 8-2 | 839 | 15 |
| 15. Creighton | 10-0 | 775 | 18 |
| 16. Missouri | 6-1 | 708 | 17 |
| 17. Indiana | 8-2 | 678 | 10 |
| 18. Kansas | 7-3 | 646 | 19 |
| 19. Xavier | 8-2 | 375 | 21 |
| 20. Kentucky | 6-3 | 374 | 14 |
| 21. LSU | 8-1 | 308 | 24 |
| 22. Maryland | 6-3 | 267 | 23 |
| 23. Wake Forest | 7-0 | 254 | 25 |
| 24. Louisville | 7-1 | 243 | — |
| 25. Texas Tech | 8-1 | 133 | — |
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Others receiving votes: Tulsa 88, Butler 65, Syracuse 45, N.C. State 44, Stanford 36, Virginia 32, Saint Joseph’s 31, Georgia 29, Memphis 25, North Carolina 25, Georgetown 24, Clemson 22, Oklahoma St. 19, Iowa St. 15, Cincinnati 15, Wyoming 6, Iowa 5, BYU 4, West Virginia 4, Manhattan 1, W. Michigan 1.
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