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Michigan is No. 1 successful The Associated Press men's assemblage hoops canvass for the archetypal clip successful 13 years, ending Arizona's nine-week reign.
The Wolverines (24-1) claimed 60 of 61 first-place votes successful Monday's canvass to ascent 1 spot and supplant the Wildcats, who were unbeaten entering past week earlier falling astatine Kansas and astatine location to Texas Tech.
“Not much,” manager Dusty May said erstwhile asked by the AP aft Saturday's rout of UCLA astir the value of perchance topping the poll. “It means we haven’t drank our ain Kool-Aid. We’ve enactment ourselves successful a presumption to beryllium playing the types of games successful mid-February that we privation to beryllium in, but we’ve got to proceed to improve.”
Michigan had been ranked No. 2 down Arizona for six of Arizona’s 9 weeks astatine the apical but was No. 1 successful analytics rankings by KenPom, Evan Miyakawa and Bart Torvik past week.
Now the Wolverines person their archetypal AP No. 1 ranking since January 2013.
Houston and Duke each moved up 1 spot to beryllium down Michigan, with the second-ranked Cougars claiming the remaining first-place vote. The Wolverines and Blue Devils are acceptable to conscionable this play successful a marquee nonconference matchup successful the nation's capital.
Arizona dropped 3 spots to No. 4. UConn was adjacent astatine No. 5, followed by Iowa State, Purdue, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois to circular retired the apical 10.
Rising
The seventh-ranked Boilermakers jumped six spots for the week's biggest leap, coming aft an overtime triumph astatine Nebraska and a triumph astatine Iowa. The preseason No. 1 has won 4 consecutive entering Tuesday's sojourn from Michigan.
No. 13 Texas Tech roseate 3 spots aft its location triumph against Colorado followed by the OT triumph astatine Arizona. As did No. 21 Louisville, with freshman Mikel Brown starring with an Atlantic Coast Conference freshman-record 45 points successful a triumph against N.C. State and 29 much successful a triumph against Baylor.
In all, 13 teams moved up from past week.
Sliding
No. 15 Michigan State and No. 16 North Carolina had the week's biggest tumbles of 5 spots. The Spartans mislaid astatine Wisconsin connected Friday, portion the Tar Heels mislaid astatine Miami portion besides learning that prima freshman Caleb Wilson is retired indefinitely with a fractured bony successful his near hand.
Seven ranked teams fell from past week's position.
Quick turnaround for Badgers
Wisconsin returned to the poll, going from receiving nary votes past week to No. 24 aft back-to-back wins against top-10 opponents Illinois and Michigan State past week.
Wisconsin antecedently had fallen retired of the canvass aft a Nov. 21 nonaccomplishment to BYU arsenic the Badgers struggled done a 7-4 start. Last week's wins, on with being the lone squad to instrumentality down Michigan, has the Badgers alongside the Red Raiders arsenic the lone teams with victories against 3 top-10 teams this year.
“Early successful the twelvemonth we were brushed mentally and physically,” manager Greg Gard said aft the 92-71 triumph against the Spartans. “We had to mature, had to turn up collectively and individually. You’re not going to beryllium capable to vie successful these types of games successful the precocious echelon of this league if you’re not physically and mentally tough. This radical has responded.”
Comings and goings
No. 25 Alabama joined Wisconsin arsenic the week's caller additions aft the Crimson Tide pushed to a four-game winning streak.
They replaced Clemson (No. 20) and Kentucky (No. 25) successful the poll.
Conference watch
The Big 12 and Big Ten dominated the apical of the canvass portion tying with a national-best six ranked teams. Those 2 leagues combined to person 8 spots successful the apical 10.
The ACC and Southeastern Conference were adjacent with 4 ranked teams each. The Big East had two, portion the West Coast Conference, Atlantic 10 and Mid-American Conference each had one.
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AP Sports Writers Larry Lage successful Michigan and Steve Megargee successful Wisconsin contributed to this report.
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