With 4 of the top 10 teams losing last week, we saw a good amount of shifting going on in the Top 25 polls released today. The Memphis Tigers and Duke Blue Devils remained the top 2 teams in the country but after them every team seemed to change their rank.
With the loss by the North Carolina Tar Heels to the Duke Blue Devils, the previously ranked #3 Tar Heels dropped only a couple spots to #5. The Kansas Jawhawks took over the 3rd spot with the Tennessee Volunteers moving up 3 spots to a season best #4 rank.
Other big movers included the Stanford Cardinals who have been moving steadily up the rankings the past few weeks - the Cardinals are now ranked 7th. UCLA made a move in the wrong direction after their upset loss to the Washington Huskies - the Bruins dropped from #4 to #6 and to be honest they could have dropped further.
Memphis has been at the top of the college basketball polls for 3 straight weeks and collected all 31 first place votes in the ESPN / USA Today poll. With a great deal of the top 25 teams heading into tough conference games this week I am sure these rankings will change dramatically yet again next Monday.
Here is the full ESPN / USA Today Top 25 Poll for the 14th week of the College Basketball Season.
1. Memphis (31) 23-0
2. Duke 21-1
3. Kansas 23-1
4. Tennessee 21-2
5. North Carolina 22-2
6. UCLA 21-3
7. Stanford 20-3
8. Georgetown 19-3
9. Michigan State 20-3
10. Butler 21-2
11. Texas 19-4
12. Indiana 20-3
13. Xavier 20-4
14. Wisconsin 19-4
15. Drake 22-1
16. Texas A&M 20-4
17. Connecticut 18-5
18. Notre Dame 18-4
19. Vanderbilt 20-4
20. Washington State 18-5
21. Saint Mary’s 20-3
22. Kansas State 17-5
23. Purdue 19-5
24. Pittsburgh 18-5
25. Marquette 16-6
