Down went Gonzaga Saturday night, and thus there are no more undefeated teams in college basketball. The Zags were 29-0 heading into the game and looked like they’d be the fifth team in the last 40 years to start a season with 30 wins in a row. But they lost to BYU at home in one of the season’s more surprising results. The ‘Zags fall to No. 4 in the latest AP Poll.
NCAA basketball rankings 2017: Kansas takes over as No. 1 after Gonzaga’s first loss
After losing their first game this season, the Bulldogs fall to No. 4 in the rankings.
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Your new No. 1 is Kansas, with 58 of 65 possible votes. The Jayhawks have two Big 12 games left against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. The Jayhawks are almost certainly going to get a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament barring a disaster.
The game of the weekend was unquestionably UCLA vs. Arizona and it certainly did not disappoint. There was a case to be made that the Bruins could be the nation’s No. 1 team after winning the top-five matchup on Saturday. Instead, UCLA ends up at No. 3 as it stares down the end of the regular season.
But this is the penultimate AP Poll that’ll have any kind of resonance for this college basketball season because this is the last week of the college basketball season. That means it’s conference tournament time. Strap in.
- Kansas (58)
- Villanova (2)
- UCLA
- Gonzaga (2)
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Arizona
- Louisville
- Kentucky
- West Virginia
- Baylor
- Florida
- Butler
- SMU
- Florida State
- Purdue
- Duke
- Cincinnati
- Notre Dame
- St. Mary’s
- Wichita State
- Wisconsin
- Virginia
- Iowa State
- Miami
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