WVU basketball falls to No. 17 in new AP Top 25
February 17, 2020 by Tom Bragg
(photo by Sean McNamara)
The West Virginia University men’s basketball team dropped three spots to No. 17 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 coming off losses to No. 3 Kansas and No. 1 Baylor last week.
The Mountaineers (18-7, 6-6 Big 12) are at No. 10 in the current NCAA NET rankings and No. 7 according to KenPom.com.
WVU hosts Oklahoma State on Tuesday this week before a Saturday trip to play at TCU.
The full AP Top 25 is below. I’ll update this post with ballot information when it is released.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 16, 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 (48) | 23-1 | 1559 | 1 |
| 2. Gonzaga (14) | 26-1 | 1518 | 2 |
| 3. Kansas (1) | 22-3 | 1434 | 3 |
| 4. San Diego St. | 26-0 | 1404 | 4 |
| 5. Dayton | 23-2 | 1294 | 6 |
| 6. Duke | 22-3 | 1285 | 7 |
| 7. Maryland | 21-4 | 1194 | 9 |
| 8. Florida St. | 21-4 | 1088 | 8 |
| 9. Penn St. | 20-5 | 1024 | 13 |
| 10. Kentucky | 20-5 | 1011 | 12 |
| 11. Louisville | 21-5 | 837 | 5 |
| 12. Villanova | 19-6 | 824 | 15 |
| 13. Auburn | 22-3 | 818 | 11 |
| 14. Oregon | 20-6 | 742 | 17 |
| 15. Creighton | 20-6 | 718 | 23 |
| 16. Seton Hall | 18-7 | 672 | 10 |
| 17. West Virginia | 18-7 | 552 | 14 |
| 18. Colorado | 20-6 | 501 | 16 |
| 19. Marquette | 17-7 | 404 | 18 |
| 20. Iowa | 18-8 | 254 | 21 |
| 21. Butler | 19-7 | 242 | 19 |
| 22. Houston | 20-6 | 237 | 20 |
| 23. BYU | 21-7 | 188 | – |
| 24. Arizona | 18-7 | 102 | – |
| 25. Ohio St. | 17-8 | 95 | – |
Others receiving votes: Texas Tech 92, Michigan St. 87, Michigan 83, LSU 55, Rhode Island 39, Virginia 32, Cincinnati 14, Stephen F Austin 14, Illinois 12, N Iowa 9, Utah St. 8, Rutgers 6, Florida 6, ETSU 5, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 4, Tulsa 3, Richmond 3, SMU 2, New Mexico St. 2, Wright St. 1, Arizona St 1.