Here’s where Kentucky basketball ended up in this week’s AP Top 25
Coming off an impressive performance against a likely tournament team in UNC Greensboro, Kentucky finally inched up in the Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll, coming in at No. 9 on Monday.
The Cats throttled Monmouth 90-44 and then played probably their best game of the season Saturday in a 78-61 win over UNC Greensboro on Saturday. UK only allowed 21 points in the second half after being torched for 40 in the first.
UK benefited from losses by ranked teams all around them in the poll with Michigan State, North Carolina, Kansas State, Virginia Tech and Iowa all dropping games.
The top four remain unchanged with Gonzaga at the top, followed by Kansas, Duke and Virginia. But Michigan jumped Nevada and Tennessee after double-digit wins against North Carolina and Purdue last week.
There were three new teams in No. 20 Arizona State, No. 24 Nebraska and No. 25 Furman. It is Furman’s first AP poll appearance.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Top Twenty Five
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 2, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:
| | Record | Pts | Pvs |
1. Gonzaga (43) | 8-0 | 1,578 | 1 |
2. Kansas (19) | 6-0 | 1,539 | 2 |
3. Duke (1) | 7-1 | 1,463 | 3 |
4. Virginia (1) | 7-0 | 1,367 | 4 |
5. Michigan | 8-0 | 1,339 | 7 |
6. Nevada | 8-0 | 1,300 | 5 |
7. Tennessee | 6-1 | 1,238 | 6 |
8. Auburn | 6-1 | 1,154 | 8 |
9. Kentucky | 7-1 | 1,070 | 10 |
10. Michigan St. | 6-2 | 915 | 9 |
11. Florida St. | 6-1 | 871 | 15 |
12. Wisconsin | 7-1 | 809 | 22 |
13. Texas Tech | 7-0 | 783 | 20 |
14. North Carolina | 6-2 | 782 | 11 |
15. Virginia Tech | 6-1 | 675 | 13 |
16. Kansas St | 6-1 | 629 | 12 |
17. Buffalo | 7-0 | 515 | 21 |
18. Iowa | 6-1 | 417 | 14 |
19. Ohio St. | 7-1 | 385 | 16 |
20. Arizona St | 7-0 | 384 | - |
21. Villanova | 6-2 | 356 | 23 |
22. Mississippi St. | 6-1 | 243 | 25 |
23. Maryland | 7-1 | 204 | 24 |
24. Nebraska | 7-1 | 176 | - |
25. Furman | 8-0 | 101 | - |
Others receiving votes: Purdue 100, Syracuse 62, Marquette 47, Iowa St. 46, Texas 44, Creighton 42, St. John’s 39, Houston 30, NC State 14, Indiana 13, Arizona 12, Louisville 11, Clemson 11, Radford 9, TCU 9, Notre Dame 3, Arkansas 3, Oregon 3, UCLA 3, Florida 2, Boston College 2, Davidson 1, Oklahoma 1.