Kentucky Wildcats Remain Unanimous No. 1 In AP Top 25 Poll
There is no doubt who the top team in college basketball is as the Kentucky Wildcats are dominating the competition and remain the unanimous pick as the No. 1 team in the latest AP top 25 poll.
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John Calipari’s Kentucky team gained all 65 first-place votes for this week’s AP top 25 poll after embarrassing UCLA by the score of 83-44 and it wasn’t even that clase as the Wildcats let 41-7 at halftime.
Kentucky is 12-0 and face their toughest date this season when they travel to No. 4 Louisville to take on Rick Pitino’s team on Dec. 27. The top three remained unchanged with Duke and Arizona following Kentucky and Virginia moved into the top five after overtaking No. 6 Wisconsin.
Entering this week’s top 25 are Baylor, UNI, Colorado State and TCU while Miami, San Diego State, Butler and Michigan State dropped out after losses.
The rest of the top 25 for Week 7 is as follows:
| RK | TEAM | RECORD | PTS |
| 1 | Kentucky (65) | 12-0 | 1,625 |
| 2 | Duke | 10-0 | 1,548 |
| 3 | Arizona | 12-0 | 1,502 |
| 4 | Louisville | 10-0 | 1,344 |
| 5 | Virginia | 11-0 | 1,336 |
| 6 | Wisconsin | 10-1 | 1,322 |
| 7 | Villanova | 11-0 | 1,214 |
| 8 | Gonzaga | 11-1 | 1,170 |
| 9 | Texas | 10-1 | 1,149 |
| 10 | Kansas | 9-1 | 1,096 |
| 11 | Wichita St | 8-1 | 966 |
| 12 | Iowa State | 9-1 | 821 |
| 13 | Washington | 10-0 | 798 |
| 14 | Utah | 8-2 | 796 |
| 15 | Maryland | 11-1 | 678 |
| 16 | Notre Dame | 11-1 | 536 |
| 17 | St. John’s | 9-1 | 517 |
| 18 | West Virginia | 10-1 | 464 |
| 19 | Oklahoma | 7-3 | 436 |
| 20 | North Carolina | 8-3 | 414 |
| 21 | Ohio State | 9-2 | 411 |
| 22 | Baylor | 9-1 | 203 |
| 23 | Northern Iowa | 10-1 | 162 |
| 24 | Colorado St | 11-0 | 144 |
| 25 | TCU | 11-0 | 120 |
Ohio State had the biggest drop of the teams who remain ranked after falling from No. 12 to No. 21 after a lost to North Carolina and Notre Dame was the biggest riser this week, climbing up five spots from No. 21 to No. 16.
Clearly, there is little debate about who is the No. 1 team in the country, but do you think the voters got the rest of the top five right? How would your top five look? Let us know in the comments section below with your opinion on who you believe is ranked too high and who is too low.
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