WVU basketball down one spot to No. 17 in AP Top 25
January 6, 2020 by Tom Bragg(photo by Sean McNamara)
The West Virginia University men’s basketball team dropped one spot following a loss at No. 3 Kansas. The Mountaineers (11-2) check in at No. 17 this week with two games on the schedule — tonight at Oklahoma State and Saturday at the Coliseum against No. 22 Texas Tech. It is the 103rd week West Virginia has appeared in the AP Top 25 under Bob Huggins.
WVU also fell two spots in the most recent batch of the NCAA’s NET rankings to No. 12. That full list can be found here.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 5, 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 | Prv | |
1. Gonzaga (54) | 16-1 | 1607 | 1 |
2. Duke (9) | 13-1 | 1545 | 2 |
3. Kansas (2) | 11-2 | 1513 | 3 |
4. Baylor | 11-1 | 1386 | 6 |
5. Auburn | 13-0 | 1317 | 8 |
6. Butler | 14-1 | 1181 | 11 |
7. San Diego St. | 15-0 | 1130 | 13 |
8. Michigan St. | 12-3 | 1129 | 14 |
9. Oregon | 12-3 | 1075 | 4 |
10. Florida St. | 13-2 | 966 | 18 |
11. Ohio St. | 11-3 | 924 | 5 |
12. Maryland | 12-2 | 863 | 15 |
13. Louisville | 11-3 | 844 | 7 |
14. Kentucky | 10-3 | 811 | 17 |
15. Dayton | 13-2 | 614 | 20 |
16. Villanova | 10-3 | 604 | 10 |
17. West Virginia | 11-2 | 599 | 16 |
18. Virginia | 11-2 | 556 | 19 |
19. Michigan | 10-4 | 502 | 12 |
20. Penn St. | 12-2 | 456 | 21 |
21. Memphis | 12-2 | 455 | 9 |
22. Texas Tech | 10-3 | 287 | 22 |
23. Wichita St. | 13-1 | 252 | 24 |
24. Arizona | 11-3 | 184 | 25 |
25. Colorado | 12-3 | 81 | – |
Others receiving votes: Iowa 63, Seton Hall 48, Arkansas 38, Marquette 25, Xavier 18, Wisconsin 17, Houston 8, Creighton 6, Washington 6, VCU 5, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 3, N Iowa 2, Liberty 2, Purdue 1, Stephen F Austin 1, BYU 1.