Houston moves to No. 1 in Week 2 AP Poll
The first week of college basketball has come and gone. We’ve had several thrilling games, incredible performances and buzzer beaters — really everything you could ask for in the first week of the season.
But how do the rankings shape up now that basketball has actually been played? The AP Poll dropped on Monday. Here are the best teams in the country per media across the country:
- Houston (18)
- Purdue (36)
- UConn (3)
- Duke (2)
- Arizona
- Michigan (1)
- BYU
- Alabama (1)
- Kentucky
- Florida
- Texas Tech
- Louisville
- St. John’s
- Illinois
- UCLA
- Iowa State
- Michigan State
- North Carolina
- Gonzaga
- Tennessee
- Arkansas
- Auburn
- Creighton
- Wisconsin
- Kansas
Receiving votes: NC State (87), San Diego St. (67), Indiana (45), Oregon (43), Vanderbilt (37), Ohio St. (17), Baylor (14), Southern Cal (12), Kansas St. (5), Missouri (4), Mississippi (4), Mississippi St. (3), Georgia (2), Stanford (1), Oklahoma St. (1), Texas (1), Georgetown (1), Utah St. (1), Iowa (1), Virginia Tech (1).
Biggest risers: Arizona (+8), Alabama (+7), North Carolina (+7), Michigan State (+5), Illinois (+3), Gonzaga (+2).
Biggest fallers: St. John’s (-8), Florida (-7), Arkansas (-7), Kansas (-6), UCLA (-3), Tennessee (-2), Auburn (-2).
Nobody has moved in or out of the poll. We’ll have some big time ranked-on-ranked games this week including Kentucky-Louisville (Tuesday), Texas Tech-Illinois (Tuesday), Creighton-Gonzaga (Tuesday), Purdue-Alabama (Thursday), Arizona-UCLA (Friday), BYU-UConn (Saturday) and Houston-Auburn (Sunday).
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