Men's basketball ballot breakdown | Illinois just hanging on in top 25
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press mens college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking.
RK., TEAM REC.
PTS.
PREV.
1.
Auburn (62) 20-1 1,550 1 2.
Duke 19-2 1,488 2 3.
Alabama 19-3 1,422 4 4.
Tennessee 18-4 1,295 8 5.
Houston 17-4 1,245 6 6.
Florida 18-3 1,183 5 7.
Purdue 17-5 1,102 10 8.
Iowa State 17-4 1,078 3 9.
Michigan State 18-3 1,044 7 10.
Texas A&M 17-5 976 13 11.
Marquette 18-4 875 9 12.
St.
Johns 19-3 808 15 13.
Texas Tech 17-4 793 22 14.
Kentucky 15-6 747 12 15.
Missouri 17-4 717 20 16.
Kansas 15-6 599 11 17.
Memphis 18-4 530 19 18.
Maryland 17-5 390 NR 19.
Connecticut 16-6 322 25 20.
Arizona 15-6 308 NR 21.
Wisconsin 17-5 287 17 22.
Mississippi State 16-6 217 14 23.
Illinois 15-7 208 18 24.
Michigan 16-5 191 NR 25.
Mississippi 16-6 184 23 Others receiving votes: Clemson 182, Saint Marys 136, Louisville 86, Creighton 50, Oregon 39, UCLA 26, New Mexico 23, Drake 18, Gonzaga 11, Utah State 8, Vanderbilt 4, Baylor 3, George Mason 3, Texas 1, Oklahoma 1.
THE NEWS-GAZETTES TOP 25 Illinois beat writer Scott Richey is in his 10th season as an AP Top 25 voter.
Heres how his 13th regular-season ballot of the 2024-25 season shook out: RK., TEAM PREV.
1.
Auburn 1 2.
Duke 2 3.
Alabama 4 4.
Iowa State 3 5.
Florida 5 6.
Tennessee 6 7.
Houston 7 8.
Michigan State 8 9.
Texas A&M 11 10.
St.
Johns 17 11.
Marquette 9 12.
Purdue 13 13.
Memphis 14 14.
Missouri 20 15.
Texas Tech 25 16.
Kentucky 10 17.
Maryland 18 18.
Arizona NR 19.
Mississippi State 12 20.
Mississippi 21 21.
Saint Marys NR 22.
Connecticut NR 23.
Kansas 22 24.
Illinois 19 25.
Wisconsin 24 Whos up Texas Tech extended its winning streak to six and got within a half game of the top spot in the Big 12 with an 82-81 overtime win against Houston.
How the Red Raiders beat the Cougars, though, is where Saturdays game in Houston got interesting.
Leading scorer JT Toppin was ejected for a Flagrant-2 foul fewer than 4 minutes into the game when he inadvertently made leg-to-groin area contact with Houstons Joseph Tugler.
Rightly incensed, Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland got run soon after after consecutive technicals.
Then the backcourt duo of Chance McMillian and Elijah Hawkins took over, scoring a combined 40 points to lead the Red Raiders to one of the biggest (and most improbable given Toppins ejection) wins of the week.
Whos down Mississippi States tumble down this weeks poll wasnt exactly a surprise.
The Bulldogs did play a pair of fellow ranked SEC teams, but squandered any home-court advantage they might have at Humphrey Coliseum.
A four-point loss to Alabama was understandable, but getting clobbered by Missouri in an 88-61 loss furthered Mississippi States eight-spot slide in the new AP Top 25.
Iowa State, Kansas and Illinois were the next biggest dips, falling five spots apiece.
Mississippi States Josh Hubbard did what he could last week with 38 point against the Crimson Tide and 24 against the Tigers, and hell need to keep it up moving forward.
The Bulldogs project to be favored in just one of their next six games.
Who to watch The Big East takes center stage at Madison Square Garden, no less on Tuesday with No.
12 St.
Johns hosting No.
11 Marquette (5:30 p.m., FS1) with a chance to further cement its place atop the conference standings.
The next game of consequence comes Wednesday in the SEC, of course, with No.
4 Tennessee hosting No.
15 Missouri (6 p.m., SEC Network), which already has ranked road wins against Florida and Mississippi State in league play.
Weekend action is basically limited to Saturday as not to run up against the Super Bowl, with marquee games in the SEC and Big 12.
The former will see No.
6 Florida play at No.
1 Auburn (3 p.m., ESPN), while newly-ranked No.
20 Arizona gets No.
13 Texas Tech in Tucson, Ariz.
(ESPN)..
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