Kansas Jayhawks maintain fourth in both polls

Whereas it took a bit longer to place the sport away than anticipated, the Kansas Jayhawks did sufficient of their win over Harvard to take care of the fourth spot in each polls on Monday.

The highest 5 remained the identical this week, with the one High 10 group struggling a loss being the Virginia Cavaliers. With their loss, they dropped all the best way to thirteenth within the AP Ballot and twelfth within the Coaches Ballot.

Forward of the Jayhawks are Purdue, UConn and Houston, with Arizona and Texas proper behind. Spots 7 by way of 13 come from the identical groups in each polls, with Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Gonzaga rounding out the High 10 of the AP Ballot forward of UCLA, Baylor and Virginia. For the Coaches Ballot, Arkansas, UCLA, Alabama and Tennessee spherical out the High 10 with Gonzaga, Virginia and Baylor up subsequent.

Apart from Virginia, huge movers within the polls this week had been Miami, who moved up 8 spots within the AP Ballot to #14 and 6 spots within the Coaches Ballot to #16, Mississippi State, who dropped 6 spots within the AP Ballot and 5 spots within the Coaches Ballot and Illinois, who dropped 6 spots within the Coaches Ballot and fully out of the AP Ballot.

The Huge 12 lastly received their fifth group within the polls, as Kansas, Texas and Baylor had been joined by TCU and new entrant West Virginia. The Horned Frogs moved as much as #18 within the AP Ballot and stayed at #19 within the Coaches Ballot, whereas the Mountaineers entered each polls at #24 this week. Iowa State, Kansas State and Texas Tech are all receiving votes in each polls as properly.

There aren’t very many matchups this week between two ranked groups. On Wednesday, #6 Alabama takes on #21 Mississippi State in Starkville. Then on Saturday, #2 UConn goes to Cincinnati to tackle #22 Xavier. However each convention begins convention play this week so there can be loads of huge assessments. 

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