Kansas nearly unanimous as AP college basketball No. 1 team
Kansas received 63 of 64 first-place votes in the Associated Press college basketball poll Monday.
Oklahoma, which lost at KU 109-106 in three overtimes a week ago, received the other first-place vote.
Wichita State received seven votes.
The Top Twenty Five
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 10, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
Record | Pts | Prv | |
1. Kansas (63) | 14-1 | 1,621 | 1 |
2. Oklahoma (1) | 13-1 | 1,551 | 2 |
3. Maryland | 15-1 | 1,472 | 3 |
4. Michigan St. (1) | 16-1 | 1,446 | 5 |
5. North Carolina | 15-2 | 1,371 | 6 |
6. Villanova | 14-2 | 1,246 | 11 |
7. Xavier | 14-1 | 1,200 | 10 |
8. Miami | 13-1 | 1,139 | 12 |
9. Duke | 14-2 | 1,100 | 14 |
10. SMU | 15-0 | 1,040 | 15 |
11. West Virginia | 14-1 | 867 | 17 |
12. Providence | 14-2 | 862 | 8 |
13. Virginia | 12-3 | 818 | 4 |
14. Kentucky | 12-3 | 698 | 9 |
15. Texas A&M | 13-2 | 668 | 21 |
16. Iowa | 12-3 | 656 | 19 |
17. Iowa St. | 12-3 | 555 | 13 |
18. Arizona | 13-3 | 537 | 7 |
19. South Carolina | 15-0 | 527 | 22 |
20. Pittsburgh | 14-1 | 334 | 24 |
21. Louisville | 13-3 | 330 | 16 |
22. Baylor | 12-3 | 325 | _ |
23. Butler | 12-4 | 302 | 18 |
24. Purdue | 14-3 | 145 | 20 |
25. Gonzaga | 13-3 | 101 | _ |
Others receiving votes: Southern Cal 79, Indiana 59, UCLA 21, Texas Tech 10, Utah 10, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 8, Wichita St. 7, Oregon 6, Valparaiso 6, Hawaii 4, Akron 1, Dayton 1, Oregon St. 1, St. Bonaventure 1.
Ballots Online: http://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll
This story was originally published January 11, 2016 at 1:41 PM with the headline "Kansas nearly unanimous as AP college basketball No. 1 team."