Arizona Tops AP Top 25 Men's Basketball Poll; UConn Women's Ranking Hits 30-Year Low
Purdue, Last Week's No. 1, Slides After Loss; Gonzaga and North Carolina Enter Top 10
- Arizona rises to No. 1 in AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the first time in nearly nine years, making Tommy Lloyd's squad the third team to hold the top spot this season.
- Last week's No. 1 team, Purdue, slid after an overtime loss at Northwestern.
- Gonzaga and North Carolina cracked the top 10 for the first time this season.
- Duke took the biggest tumble of the week, 15 spots to land at No. 22 after a pair of road losses against unranked opponents.
- In women's basketball, UConn dropped to 17th in the Associated Press Top 25, its worst ranking in 30 years.