Arizona men’s basketball unranked in AP Top 25 for first time since 2021

A month into the 2024-25 college basketball season, Arizona has gone from a top 10 team to outside the top 25 entirely.

Unsurprisingly, the Wildcats are unranked in the latest Associated Press poll after going 1-2 in the Battle4Atlantis and falling below .500 for the first time since 2010. Arizona didn’t receive any votes.

The last time Arizona found itself unranked in the AP Top 25 was the first weeks of Tommy Lloyd inaugural season as UA’s head coach in 2021-22. Arizona opened that season unranked before jumping to No. 17 in Week 3 after winning the Roman Main Event in Las Vegas.

That Arizona team finished the season with as many losses (33-4) as this team has after seven games (3-4).

The last time an Arizona team fell out of the Top 25 in-season was February 2020.

Over the last three-plus seasons, Arizona has been a mainstay in the Top 25. Arizona was ranked the last 61 Associated Press Top 25 weekly polls, which was the fourth-longest active streak in the country.

Five Big 12 teams are ranked in this week’s poll No. 1 Kansas, No. 6 Iowa State, No. 14 Cincinnati, No. 15 Baylor and No. 17 Houston.

ASU (7-1) had the fifth-most receiving votes.

Arizona returns to action Saturday when it hosts Southern Utah at 12 p.m. MST on ESPN+.