The Michigan State rose to its best classification in the Male Collegial Basketball Survey of the Top 25 of the AP this season, with a step of a place at 7 after another perfect week in Big Ten Play. The Spartans went 2-0 over the week with victories on Illinois and Rutgers to improve at 8-0 at conference. It is one of the four teams remaining in sport always undefeated in the league with Duke (ACC), Auburn (Sec) and Houston (Big 12).
The Spartans began the non-classic year in the PA Top 25 survey, but appeared in the weekly week’s ranking for the first time after an 8-2 start to the season which included victories on Caroline From the North, Minnesota and Nebraska at the time, and which have regularly increased each of the last five weeks. They have not yet lost since November 26 and have a sequence of 12 consecutive victories in this period, tied to the second largest active sequence of university hoops.
The team with the longest sequence of active victories, Duke, again stable at n ° 2 of this week’s survey for a second consecutive week firmly rooted behind unanimous n ° 1 Auburn. The Tigers won the 62 first-place votes available for a second consecutive week, and the whole top-five remained unchanged behind the two while the state of Iowa, Alabama and Florida remained at N ° 3-5.
AP TOP 25
The 25 best teams of the basketball survey of the college 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 25th and last week vote and last week’s ranking:
Also receive votes: Michigan 129, Maryland 116, Utah St. 99, Clemson 92, Arizona 47, Saint Mary’s 45, Gonzaga 34, Texas 22, Creighton 12, Baylor 8, New Mexico 4, VCU 4, West Virginia 3, Oklahoma 2, Bradley 1 , UCLA 1.
Vanderbilt ranked for the first time in nine years
It has a high cost (Vandy was struck this weekend by the dry for the staging after her 74-69 victory over Kentucky) But the commodores are classified, arriving at n ° 24 in the first season under Mark Byington. It is the first time that since December 2015 that Vanderbilt has been part of the survey after top 25. Wildcats have gone from n ° 9 last week to n ° 12 of this week’s survey.
Sec flexes his muscles again
With Vanderbilt appearing in the ranking this week, the SEC has again led all the conferences with 10 classified teams – five more than the five classified teams. The appearance of Vandy also marks the 14th SEC team different to be in the ranking this season.
Uconn is hanging again
With three defeats in his last five games, there is a 76-72 defeat in Xavier during the weekend, Uconn dropped six places in the ranking and once again avoided falling from the top 25. is the second time this season, Uconn has taken a big fall after a difficult week and hung on to n ° 25, the last time to come after her three game loser during the Maui Invitational in November.
