St. John’s and Louisville went up in the highest classification of the Top 25 poll in this season, climbing respectively at No. 6 and N ° 14. The Johnnies won the Big East championship with a victory on Seton Hall this weekend and the cardinals won their 17th match in the last 18 releases on Saturday with a home victory against Pittsburgh.
This is the highest ranking for St. John’s since the 1990-1991 season when he climbed up to 5th place, and the highest of Louisville has been in an AP survey since the 2019-2020 season, when he had a brief stay at n ° 1 at the start of the season.
Houston and Tennessee also progressed in the ranking a place each at n ° 3 and n ° 4 after Florida, classified n ° 3 last week, left two places in n ° 5. It marks the sixth time in the last six weeks, the survey has a new n ° 3.
This duration has not consisted in any change at n ° 1 and n ° 2 with Auburn and Duke again holding the first two places of the survey. It marks the eighth consecutive week that Auburn is n ° 1 and second consecutive week, Duke was n ° 2. Of these eight weeks for Auburn at the top, it was the n ° 1 unanimous five times – including each of the last two weeks.
AP TOP 25
The 25 best teams of the Basketball Survey of the Associated Press, with votes in first place in parentheses, record until Sunday, total points based on 25 points for a first place vote at a point for a vote of the 25th place and the classification of last week:
Also receive votes: VCU 85, Vanderbilt 78, Oregon 37, Drake 18, UC San Diego 17, Illinois 16, Mississippi 13, Ucla 8, Gonzaga 8, Kansas 5, High Point 4, Uconn 4, New Mexico 2, Creighton 2, Akron 1.
St. John’s reached the highest ranking in 34 years
St. John’s has reached its highest rank in the AP survey since 1990-91 after winning the Big East pure and simple championship this weekend with a victory on Seton Hall. Its climb to No. 6 was stimulated by its first pure and simple conference title in 40 years after finishing 21-1 in the last 22 games.
Buzz fades from Texas A&M
Four consecutive defeats from Texas A&M saw the Aggies take the greatest fall among the teams classified this week from n ° 12 to n ° 22. They fell at home in Vanderbilt on Wednesday and on the Florida road on Saturday to extend their sequence of defeats to four.
Louisville makes a jump
Louisville leaps for a third consecutive week in the AP survey, which increased five places from n ° 19 to n ° 14. He beat Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh this week to continue his resurgence in the first year under Pat Kelsey, who has the cardinals at 23-6 in total and winners of 17 of the last 18 games. They are a match in the back of Duke in the race for the ACC title with two regular season games to play.
