Florida basketball earns first-place votes in AP Top 25 Poll, moves into top 3
Florida basketball earns first-place votes in AP Top 25 Poll, moves into top 3
The Florida Gators recorded the best win of the men's college basketball season so far on Saturday, upsetting the top-ranked Auburn Tigers and thus earning three first-place votes in the latest AP Top 25 Poll. Florida is now tied with Duke for a share of the No. 3 spot in the Week 14 update.
Florida's No. 3 ranking is a program high in the AP Top 25 since the 2013-14 season when the Orange and Blue finished the year at No. 1
Auburn remains on top of the college basketball world for now, but Alabama has closed the gap between No. 1 and No. 2 to just nine poll points. The Tigers earned 34 first-place votes, the Crimson Tide got 23 and the Tennessee Volunteers received one.
The Gators and Duke Blue Devils both earned 1,342 poll points, leading the Volunteers by 27 points and trailing the Crimson Tide by 128 points.
SEC schools in Coaches Poll top 25
Nine SEC programs are ranked inside the top 25 this week. In addition to the four top-5 programs mentioned above, Texas A&M checks in at No. 8, Kentucky is No. 15, Ole Miss is No. 19, Missouri is No. 21 and Mississippi State rounds out the group at No. 22.
No other SEC teams earned votes this week, but that's still half the conference inside the top 25. The Big Ten has the second-most ranked teams of any conference with five.
AP Top 25 Poll — Week 14
Rank Team Record Points 1 Auburn 21-2 1,479 (34) 2 Alabama 20-3 1,470 (23) T-3 Florida 20-3 1,342 (3) T-3 Duke 20-3 1,342 5 Tennessee 20-4 1,315 (1) 6 Houston 19-4 1,235 7 Purdue 19-5 1,142 8 Texas A&M 18-5 1,065 9 St. John's 21-3 1,058 10 Iowa State 18-5 880 11 Michigan State 19-4 868 12 Texas Tech 18-5 778 13 Arizona 17-6 701 14 Memphis 20-4 676 15 Kentucky 16-7 558 16 Wisconsin 19-5 488 17 Kansas 16-7 469 18 Marquette 18-6 442 19 Ole Miss 18-6 415 20 Michigan 18-5 350 21 Missouri 17-6 333 22 Mississippi State 17-6 292 23 Clemson 19-5 291 24 Creighton 18-6 198 25 Maryland 18-6 196
Others receiving votes:
UCLA 123, UConn 106, Illinois 59, Louisville 53, New Mexico 40, Drake 21, Saint Mary's 20, Utah St. 8, George Mason 7, Gonzaga 5.
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