Connecticut has adopted final 12 months’s run to the NCAA championship with its first No. 1 rating within the Related Press males’s faculty basketball ballot in almost 15 years, whereas Gonzaga has fallen out of the AP High 25 for the primary time in eight years.
The Huskies moved to the highest of Monday’s newest ballot after a tumultuous and upset-filled week throughout the game, which included 5 new groups leaping into the ballot. UConn claimed 39 of 63 first-place votes to climb three spots and substitute Purdue on the high after the Boilermakers’ loss at Nebraska dropped them to No. 2.
This marks the primary time UConn has hit No. 1 within the AP High 25 since spending 4 weeks there within the second half of the 2008-09 season, which ended with the Huskies reaching the Ultimate 4.
“Some individuals don’t need the goal,” coach Dan Hurley mentioned final week concerning the potential of reaching No. 1. “I believe we embrace the goal at UConn.”
Purdue claimed 20 first-place votes, adopted by Kansas — the ballot’s solely staff to remain in place from final week — holding three first-place votes regardless of a loss at UCF.
There was additionally North Carolina’s three-spot soar to No. 4 after beating rival North Carolina State for its third Atlantic Coast Convention highway win in as many tries and blowing out Syracuse at dwelling. UNC even picked up a first-place vote.
Gonzaga fell out from No. 23 after a loss at Santa Clara, marking the primary time Mark Few’s membership has been unranked for the reason that ultimate two months of the 2015-16 season.
That ended a stretch of 143 consecutive weeks within the ballot, with 39 of these coming at No. 1 — notably with that wire-to-wire run within the 2020-21 season that ended with Gonzaga struggling its solely loss within the NCAA title recreation to Baylor.
The previous week changed into a trap-filled slate for the AP High 25 groups. Eight of the highest 10 groups misplaced a minimum of as soon as, with No. 5 Houston dropping two video games by a mixed 5 factors for its first setbacks of the 12 months.
However with 15 ranked groups dropping final week, that insulated some groups from falling as a lot with everybody round them additionally stumbling. That in the end meant the Cougars dropped simply three spots to No. 5, whereas Purdue, No. 6 Tennessee and No. 8 Kentucky fell only one or two spots after their very own losses to unranked groups.
Duke rose 4 spots to No. 7 to return to the highest 10 after beginning the 12 months at No. 2, adopted by the Wildcats, No. 9 Baylor and No. 10 Memphis.
Ten groups moved up on this week’s ballot, with the Bears’ soar of 5 spots marking the most important of the week. No. 11 Wisconsin, No. 16 Utah State and No. 18 Creighton joined the Blue Devils with four-spot jumps.
Oklahoma and Marquette had the week’s largest tumble, every falling six spots. The Fifteenth-ranked Sooners fell after highway losses to TCU and Kansas, whereas the Seventeenth-ranked Golden Eagles misplaced at dwelling to Butler.
No. 12 Arizona and No. 14 Illinois every fell 4 spots, whereas a complete of 9 groups slid from final week’s ballot.
No. 19 TCU made the most important debut to guide the week’s 5 newcomers to the ballot after wins in opposition to Oklahoma and Houston.
No. 21 Dayton, No. 22 Mississippi, No. 24 Iowa State and No. 25 Texas Tech have been the opposite additions, with all however the Rebels making their first look for this season.
Colorado State (No. 17), San Diego State (No. 19), Clemson (No. 21) and Texas (No. 25) joined the Zags in falling out of the ballot.
The Huge 12 represented virtually a 3rd of this High 25 with a national-best eight groups.
The SEC was subsequent with 4 groups, adopted by the Huge Ten and Huge East with three, the Atlantic Coast and American Athletic conferences with two, and one every for the Pac-12, Atlantic-10 and Mountain West.
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