Wildcats fall out of AP Poll following UCLA loss
Feb 10, 2020, 10:44 AM
Arizona guard Josh Green (0) drives past UCLA guard Prince Ali during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Tucson, Ariz. UCLA won 65-52. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
(AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
The Arizona Wildcats fell from No. 23 in the Associated Press college basketball top 25 poll to five spots out of the rankings after splitting two home games against the Los Angeles area schools.
A 65-52 loss on Saturday to UCLA (13-11) pulled the Wildcats down to 6-4 in Pac-12 play and 16-7 overall.
Heading into the game, Arizona had won three in a row, including a Thursday victory over the USC Trojans.
The Wildcats still earned 34 points in this week’s polling.
Baylor remains atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll in a largely static week among the top 10.
The Bears received 48 of 64 first-place votes from a media panel in the poll released Monday to stay at No. 1 for the fourth straight week. No. 2 Gonzaga had 15 first-place votes and No. 3 Kansas one.
San Diego State and Louisville rounded out the top five. Preseason No. 1 Michigan State dropped out of the poll from No. 16 following a three-game losing streak. The Spartans are the first preseason No. 1 to drop out of the rankings since Kentucky did it twice in 2013-14.
Seton Hall was the only change among the top 10 after moving up two spots to No. 10.
Baylor was the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee’s initial rankings released Saturday and remained No. 1 in the AP Top 25 after beating Kansas State and Oklahoma State last week. The Bears are the first Big 12 team since 2008 to win 20 straight games.
No. 13 Penn State had the biggest jump of the week, moving up nine spots for its highest ranking since reaching No. 9 in 1995-96.
AP Top 25 Poll
| RK |
TEAM
|
REC |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
(48)
|
21-1 |
| 2 |
(15)
|
25-1 |
| 3 |
(1)
|
20-3 |
| 4 |
|
24-0 |
| 5 |
|
21-3 |
| 6 |
|
21-2 |
| 7 |
|
20-3 |
| 8 |
|
20-3 |
| 9 |
|
19-4 |
| 10 |
|
18-5 |
| 11 |
|
21-2 |
| 12 |
|
18-5 |
| 13 |
|
18-5 |
| 14 |
|
18-5 |
| 15 |
|
17-6 |
| 16 |
|
19-5 |
| 17 |
|
18-6 |
| 18 |
|
17-6 |
| 19 |
|
18-6 |
| 20 |
|
19-5 |
| 21 |
|
17-7 |
| 22 |
|
16-7 |
| 23 |
|
18-6 |
| 24 |
|
15-8 |
| 25 |
|
17-6 |
Michigan State 124, Rhode Island 57, Northern Iowa 44, BYU 43, Arizona 34, Purdue 27, Ohio State 14, Cincinnati 6, Stephen F. Austin 6, Michigan 3, Rutgers 2, Virginia 2, East Tennessee State 2, Wright State 1, Winthrop 1
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
