UNDATED (AP) — Baylor has moved into the top spot in the weekly Associated Press men’s basketball poll. The Bears replace Villanova which was upset last week by Butler. The 15-0 Bears have made a meteoric rise in the poll, going from a team that didn’t receive a vote in the preseason poll to one that received 55 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel.
The second-ranked school is Kansas, which received eight first place votes, with Villanova third after getting one first place nod. Ranked No. 4 is UCLA and the Bruins were given the remaining first place vote. The fifth-ranked team is unbeaten Gonzaga (gahn-ZAG’-uh) while Kentucky is sixth followed by Duke, Creighton (KRAY’-tin), Florida State and West Virginia.
