Arizona ranked No. 19, Kentucky No. 1 in latest basketball Top 25

The latest Associated Press college basketball Top 25 has the Arizona Wildcats ranked 19th in the country after being 21st a week ago.
Arizona is the second-highest of four ranked Pac-12 teams. Oregon (2-0) is ranked 14th. Washington (20) and Colorado (25) are also ranked.
Arizona State received no votes.
Arizona is 2-0 after beating Northern Arizona 91-52 in the season-opener on Wednesday. On Sunday, Arizona took down Illinois 90-69. Both of those games were at home.
Meanwhile, Kentucky is back in a familiar position under John Calipari: No. 1.
Kentucky rose one spot after winning a 1-vs-2 matchup with Michigan State to open the season in the Champions Classic, followed by an easy win against Eastern Kentucky. It earned 64 of 65 first-place votes in Monday’s poll to finish ahead of No. 2 Duke.
It marks the first time Kentucky (2-0) has reached No. 1 in the AP Top 25 since spending two weeks there early in the 2016-17 season.
Yet it’s the seventh of Calipari’s 11 seasons that the Wildcats have spent at least one week atop the AP Top 25. That includes 10 weeks during the 2011-12 season on the way to the national championship and a start-to-finish stay in 2014-15 as the Wildcats carried an unbeaten record to the Final Four, where they lost to Wisconsin.
Here’s the rest of the latest AP Top 25:
1. Kentucky
2. Duke
3. Michigan State
4. Louisville
5. Kansas
6. North Carolina
7. Maryland
8. Gonzaga
9. Virginia
10. Villanova
11. Texas Tech
12. Seton Hall
13. Memphis
14. Oregon
15. Florida
16. Ohio State
17. Utah State
18. Saint Mary’s
19. Arizona
20. Washington
21. Xavier
22. Auburn
23. LSU
24. Baylor
25. Colorado
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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