Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
1 | Florida | Florida extended their winning streak to 21. The finish up at South Carolina and at home to Kentucky. | 1 | |
2 | Wichita State | The Shockers wrapped up their perfect regular season with an easy win over MSU. Now it's off to Arch Madness. | 2 | |
3 | Arizona | Arizona easily took care of Stanford and Cal at home. Maybe Oregon and OSU will give them a test on the road. | 4 | |
4 | Duke | Duke deserved an easy week, beating VT easily in their lone game. Next up is WF and revenge against UNC. | 5 | |
5 | Virginia | An outright ACC title with a week left to go should give Virginia some much deserved respect. | 13 | |
6 | Syracuse | Syracuse is on a big slide after losing three of their last four contests. They can turn it around against GT and FSU. | 3 | |
7 | Villanova | Villanova beat up on Butler and Marquette last week. The contest at Xavier on Thursday should be closer. | 9 | |
8 | Kansas | The Jayhawks can still move up to a #1 seed in the NCAAs, but the loss to Oklahoma State hurt. | 7 | |
9 | Creighton | Creighton still has a shot at winning the Big East, but they will almost certainly need to beat G'town and Providence. | 11 | |
10 | Louisville | The AAC title is up for grabs after Louisville lost at Memphis. They still have to play SMU and Connecticut. | 6 | |
11 | San Diego State | In a tough week for many top 15 teams, San Diego State took care of business against SJSU and Fresno State. | 12 | |
12 | Cincinnati | It turned out Cincinnati had a golden opportunity to take control of the AAC, but they lost at Connecticut. | 10 | |
13 | Wisconsin | The Badgers hope to take a nine game winning streak into the Big Ten Tournament, but they have to win at Nebraska. | 18 | |
14 | Saint Louis | The long Billikens run came to a halt on Thursday night against Duquesne and the losing streak continued at VCU. | 8 | |
15 | Michigan | Michigan is one win away from an outright Big Ten title. It should happen at Illinois or at home against Indiana. | 15 | |
16 | North Carolina | The Tar Heels are getting hot at the right time and a win at Cameron Indoor on Saturday night would be huge. | 21 | |
17 | Michigan State | The Spartans finally had a full squad, although not entirely healthy, but scored just 46 in a loss to Illinois. | 16 | |
18 | Connecticut | Shabazz Napier and his Huskies found a nice win over Cincy and can get another big win at Louisville. | NR | |
19 | Iowa State | Once again Iowa State failed to get the job done on the road. This week they head to Baylor. | 17 | |
20 | Oklahoma | OU played pretty well in a loss at KU and looked even better in a home win over Texas. | NR | |
21 | Southern Methodist | SMU is just a game behind Louisville and Cincinnati and they play the Cardinals on Wednesday night. | 24 | |
22 | Memphis | A win over Louisville was nice, but the Tigers still have a tough slate ahead of them to finish off the season. | 22 | |
23 | New Mexico | The Lobos stayed tied with San Diego State at 14-2 in MW play. It will all come down to Saturday's showdown. | 23 | |
24 | Kansas State | Kansas State is part of a massive four way tie for second place in the Big 12. They finish against OSU and Baylor. | NR | |
25 | Kentucky | Kentucky's close calls caught up with them last week as they lost to Arkansas and South Carolina. | 14 |
3/2 Men's Basketball Top 25 Rankings
Sun, 03/02/2014