WVU men’s basketball drops to No. 14 in AP Top 25
January 20, 2020 by Tom Bragg
(photo by Sean McNamara)
A drop in the Associated Press Top 25 was expected for West Virginia after the Mountaineers got blasted over the weekend at Kansas State, but the fall was not too far.
WVU checked in at No. 14 in this week’s AP Top 25, down two spots from No. 12 last week. Big 12 rival Baylor is the new No. 1 this week, with Kansas at No. 3. The full poll is included below.
The Mountaineers are still well thought of in the NCAA’s NET rankings, despite the lopsided loss at K-State. WVU sits at No. 9 in the latest batch of NET rankings.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 19, 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. Baylor (33) | 15-1 | 1591 | 2 |
| 2. Gonzaga (31) | 20-1 | 1588 | 1 |
| 3. Kansas (1) | 14-3 | 1470 | 6 |
| 4. San Diego St. | 19-0 | 1422 | 7 |
| 5. Florida St. | 16-2 | 1335 | 9 |
| 6. Louisville | 15-3 | 1303 | 11 |
| 7. Dayton | 16-2 | 1139 | 13 |
| 8. Duke | 15-3 | 1065 | 3 |
| 9. Villanova | 14-3 | 1055 | 14 |
| 10. Seton Hall | 14-4 | 1034 | 18 |
| 11. Michigan St. | 14-4 | 1004 | 15 |
| 12. Oregon | 15-4 | 886 | 8 |
| 13. Butler | 15-3 | 867 | 5 |
| 14. West Virginia | 14-3 | 758 | 12 |
| 15. Kentucky | 13-4 | 755 | 10 |
| 16. Auburn | 15-2 | 637 | 4 |
| 17. Maryland | 14-4 | 525 | 17 |
| 18. Texas Tech | 12-5 | 399 | 23 |
| 19. Iowa | 13-5 | 398 | – |
| 20. Memphis | 14-3 | 394 | 22 |
| 21. Illinois | 13-5 | 280 | 24 |
| 22. Arizona | 13-5 | 225 | – |
| 23. Colorado | 14-4 | 154 | 20 |
| 24. Rutgers | 14-4 | 152 | – |
| 25. Houston | 14-4 | 151 | – |
Others receiving votes: Wichita St. 94, LSU 83, Michigan 73, N Iowa 42, Ohio St. 36, Stanford 28, Wisconsin 28, Penn St. 24, Liberty 21, Florida 21, Arkansas 19, Virginia 13, Creighton 13, Duquesne 13, Purdue 9, ETSU 6, Indiana 6, Southern Cal 4, Marquette 2, BYU 2, Harvard 1.