Auburn edges Alabama atop AP Top 25 despite loss, Duke and Florida tied at No. 3; UConn drops out

In number 1, the Run No. 3 remains despite the loss of Florida. Yukin’s latest loss has twice removed the defense national champion for the first time in two years.

Tigers kept First place in the poll For the fifth week of Monday, 61 people receive 34 first position votes from the media panel. Number 2 Albama moved to one place and had 23 votes in the first position, which was only nine points behind Aberan, while Florida got three high votes and No. 5 Tennessee got one.

Duke was tied to Florida on Duke No. 3, the number 9 Saint John first moved to Top 10 for the first time after finishing the 1999-2000 season at number 9.

Yukin turned out of vote from the number 19 A 68-62 house loss For St. Johns on Friday, the ranking of the country’s fourth long -long acting Straikes (53 weeks) was eliminated.

Florida has its highest rating since reaching the first number in 2013-14 Obran is defeating 90-81 To win the first real road on an advanced team in the program history. After this season it was the second win over the Gaiters’ advanced team Not after that. 1 Tennessee January 7 at home.

Ibran won 14 straight 14 and was the unanimous number 1 in the last three weeks.

The Tigers were not the only top team to lose.

Duke dropped two places at number 4 Damage of 77-71 to Klimson Its 16 game wins ended. Number 10 Iowa State also dropped two places then Number 17 lost to 69-52 from Kansas. Hurricane had reached the highest rankings so far at No. 2 last month, but before that was lost in three consecutive TCU is blowing On Saturday

Sinking straw

Yukan started the season at number 3 and climbed his bid number 2 to become the first team after John Wuden’s UCLA Bronze, which won three straight national championships in the early 1960s.

Yukin (16-7, 8-4 Big East) has lost three of the five and is fourth in the Big East, behind 3 1/2 game St. John.

Yukan coach Dan Herley said, “I’m very hopeful.” “I think we have a good time to play right now. I think we have had the opportunity to roll this thing in February and look very different in March.

Growing and falling

Number 13 was the largest jump of the week in Arizona, then climbed seven places BYU is killing And Number 12 Texas Tech Last week No. 16 Oli Miss Taking down to six places No. 15 Kentucky And LSU is defeating 72-70 On the last second shot of Diwis.

No. 18 Market and No. 25 Maryland still had the biggest drops of teams in the survey, each of which lost seven places. Number 21 fell six places after Missouri Losing from No. 5 Tennessee And No. 8 Texas A & M The last second 3 pointer.

In and out of

Number 24 returned to vote for the first time after November 25 after winning More than Providance And the market. The number 23 has returned after removing the Kleimson Duke. Eli Naya joined Ukin to get out of the survey The loss of 82-73 to the routeers.

Conference Watch

The SEC had at least nine teams in the survey for the seventh week, including the top 10 and the top three and five. There were no more than six -class teams in any other league this season.

The Big Tan has six -class teams, followed by Big 12 with five and Big East three. One of the coasts of the Atlantic and one of the US athletic conferences was one.

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