AP Top 25 College Basketball Rankings – Week 12

The college basketball season is in full swing and following another week of action the Associated Press has released its latest AP Top 25 poll. Once again, the defending national champion Villanova Wildcats sit in the No. 1 spot.
Kansas, Gonzaga, Kentucky and Baylor round out the top five, while previously ranked No. 3 UCLA fell to No. 8.
The Florida State Seminoles jumped four spots to No. 6, while Arizona jumped into the top ten from No. 14 to No. 7.
Where does your favorite team land in the latest rankings?
The full AP Top 25 college basketball rankings for Week 12 can be seen below, with first-place votes in parenthesis:

  1. Villanova (35)
  2. Kansas (28)
  3. Gonzaga (2)
  4. Kentucky
  5. Baylor
  6. Florida State
  7. Arizona
  8. UCLA
  9. North Carolina
  10. Oregon
  11. Butler
  12. Virginia
  13. Louisville
  14. Notre Dame
  15. Wisconsin
  16. Creighton
  17. Duke
  18. West Virginia
  19. Cincinnati
  20. Purdue
  21. Saint Mary’s
  22. Maryland
  23. South Carolina
  24. Xavier
  25. Florida

Others receiving votes: Kansas St. 41, SMU 33, Northwestern 28, UNC Wilmington 14, Iowa St. 12, Virginia Tech 7, Dayton 6, Southern Cal 6, Akron 1, Illinois St. 1, Middle Tennessee 1, Utah 1
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