The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 23, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week\u2019s ranking:<\/p>\n
\u2020^ \u2021Record\u2022\u2022\u2022Pts\u2022Prv<\/p>\n
1. Duke (35) \u2021 11-1 1529 2<\/p>\n
2. Michigan (9) \u2021 12-0 1472 4<\/p>\n
3. Tennessee (12) \u2021 10-1 1471 3<\/p>\n
4. Virginia (4) \u2021 11-0 1427 5<\/p>\n
5. Kansas (4) \u2021 10-1 1386 1<\/p>\n
6. Nevada \u2021 12-0 1316 6<\/p>\n
7. Gonzaga \u2021 11-2 1199 8<\/p>\n
8. Michigan St. \u2021 10-2 1146 10<\/p>\n
9. Florida St. \u2021 11-1 1061 11<\/p>\n
10. Virginia Tech \u2021 10-1 924 13<\/p>\n
11. Texas Tech \u2021 10-1 845 12<\/p>\n
12. Auburn \u2021 10-2 770 7<\/p>\n
13. Ohio St. \u2021 11-1 737 15<\/p>\n
14. North Carolina \u2021 8-3 678 9<\/p>\n
15. Wisconsin \u2021 10-2 673 16<\/p>\n
16. Kentucky \u2021 9-2 664 19<\/p>\n
17. Arizona St. \u2021 9-2 626 18<\/p>\n
18. Marquette \u2021 10-2 538 20<\/p>\n
19. Mississippi St. \u2021 11-1 518 17<\/p>\n
20. N.C. State \u2021 11-1 292 |_<\/p>\n
21. Buffalo \u2021 11-1 279 14<\/p>\n
22. Houston \u2021 12-0 274 21<\/p>\n
23. Indiana \u2021 11-2 247 22<\/p>\n
24. Iowa \u2021 10-2 178 23<\/p>\n
25. Oklahoma \u2021 11-1 163 |_<\/p>\n
Others receiving votes: Nebraska 160, Kansas St. 69, St. John\u2019s 67, Villanova 44, Cincinnati 11, Iowa St. 11, TCU 6, Seton Hall 5, Louisville 4, Purdue 3, Belmont 2, Furman 2, NJIT 1, Penn 1, San Francisco 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 23, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week\u2019s ranking: \u2020^ \u2021Record\u2022\u2022\u2022Pts\u2022Prv 1. Duke (35) \u2021 11-1 1529 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160856,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160830\/revisions\/160856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}