Arizona State basketball slips to No. 21 in AP Poll; UA jumps to 11th
Jan 22, 2018, 10:20 AM | Updated: 4:58 pm
(AP Photo/Ben Margot)
After a weekend split in the Bay Area, the Arizona State Sun Devils have dropped another five spots to 21st in the Associated Press Poll released Monday.
ASU (15-4, 3-4 Pac-12) entered the week No. 16 in last week’s AP rankings. The Sun Devils followed an 86-77 loss to the Stanford Cardinal on Wednesday with a 81-73 victory Saturday over a California Golden Bears squad that has one Pac-12 win in seven games thus far.
Meanwhile, the Arizona Wildcats (16-4) jumped from 14th to 11th in the poll.
They swept their road series by hammering Cal, 79-58, before rallying for a 73-71 win at Stanford to take the Pac-12 lead with a 6-1 conference record.
Villanova remains No. 1 in the AP Poll, and like last week it is followed by Virginia and Purdue to round out the top-3. Oklahoma tumbled out of fourth place to 12th after losses to Kansas State and Oklahoma State.
The Sooners’ freefall moved previous fifth-ranked Duke to fourth, while Kansas jumped from 10th to fifth with wins over previously-sixth-ranked West Virginia and Baylor.