Wichita State basketball falls out of AP Top 25; Kansas ranked No. 4
Three losses in the AdvoCare Invitational over the Thanksgiving weekend ended Wichita State’s four-season streak of being ranked in the Associated Press college basketball poll.
Kansas moved up one spot to No. 4.
The Shockers, ranked 20th last week, dropped out of the poll and didn’t receive a vote from any of the sportswriters and sportscasters on the poll board.
The school-record streak of 42 straight weeks in the AP poll was ended by losses to Southern California, Alabama and Iowa, dropping the Shockers to 2-4. WSU was last unranked in the poll of March 18, 2013, and it had received votes in every poll since March 4, 2013.
WSU, which next plays at 8 p.m. Saturday at Saint Louis, had owned the fourth-longest active streak of consecutive weeks in the poll.
The Top Twenty Five
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 29, 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. Kentucky (59) | 6-0 | 1,619 | 1 |
2. Maryland (4) | 6-0 | 1,512 | 2 |
3. Michigan St. (2) | 7-0 | 1,510 | 3 |
4. Kansas | 4-1 | 1,342 | 5 |
5. Iowa St. | 5-0 | 1,338 | 4 |
6. Oklahoma | 4-0 | 1,269 | 7 |
7. Duke | 6-1 | 1,253 | 6 |
8. Villanova | 6-0 | 1,218 | 8 |
9. North Carolina | 5-1 | 1,155 | 9 |
10. Virginia | 5-1 | 965 | 12 |
11. Purdue | 6-0 | 904 | 16 |
12. Xavier | 7-0 | 801 | 23 |
13. Gonzaga | 4-1 | 788 | 10 |
14. Syracuse | 6-0 | 696 | _ |
15. Oregon | 5-0 | 628 | 21 |
16. Vanderbilt | 5-1 | 587 | 19 |
17. Cincinnati | 7-0 | 551 | 24 |
18. Texas A&M | 6-1 | 522 | 25 |
19. Arizona | 6-1 | 504 | 11 |
20. West Virginia | 6-0 | 363 | _ |
21. Miami | 5-1 | 289 | 15 |
22. SMU | 4-0 | 256 | 25 |
23. Providence | 6-1 | 247 | _ |
24. Louisville | 5-0 | 173 | _ |
25. Baylor | 4-1 | 162 | _ |
Others receiving votes: UConn 153, Utah 72, Butler 62, George Washington 45, Indiana 26, N. Iowa 25, Notre Dame 22, California 19, Pittsburgh 11, Dayton 8, San Diego St. 5, South Carolina 5, Georgetown 4, UTEP 3, Iowa 2, LSU 2, Northwestern 2, UALR 2, Colorado St. 1, Davidson 1, Louisiana Tech 1, Monmouth (NJ) 1, Northeastern 1.
This story was originally published November 30, 2015 at 1:40 PM with the headline "Wichita State basketball falls out of AP Top 25; Kansas ranked No. 4."