College basketball released its AP Top 25 on the Monday after Selection Sunday, and while the seedings are what’s really important now going forward, there were the familiar teams at the top of the latest Top 25 poll.
The top 5 remained unchanged from last week, with Florida once again being the top SEC team on the new Top 25 list at No. 4. Arkansas, fresh off its SEC Tournament title, moved up 3 spots in the poll to No. 14.
Meanwhile, Vanderbilt, who lost to Arkansas in Sunday’s title game in Nashville, moved up 6 spots to No. 16 after a heroic run all the way to the championship game.
Alabama moved down 3 spots to No. 18 after the Crimson Tide were upset by Ole Miss in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals on Friday.
Tennessee was the last of the 5 SEC teams to crack Monday’s new poll, tying Louisville at No. 23 after the Volunteers lost to rival Vandy in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals.
With 5 SEC teams in Monday’s poll and with the NCAA Tournament starting Tuesday with 10 SEC teams included, here is what the Kalshi market sees as the top teams in the mix to advance to the Sweet 16:
Of those 10 SEC teams going dancing this March, half of them were able to get into Monday’s AP poll, headlined of course by SEC regular-season champion Florida.
Here’s the full AP Top 25, with the top 5 being the same as last week:
- Duke
- Arizona
- Michigan
- Florida
- Houston
- Iowa State
- UConn
- Purdue
- Virginia
- St. John’s
- Michigan State
- Gonzaga
- Illinois
- Arkansas
- Nebraska
- Vanderbilt
- Kansas
- Alabama
- Wisconsin
- Texas Tech
- North Carolina
- Saint Mary’s
- Tennessee
- (Tied at No. 23) Louisville
- Miami
Others receiving votes:
Miami (Ohio) 100, BYU 62, UCLA 38, Utah State 28, TCU 17, High Point 14, VCU 12, Clemson 9, Ohio State 5, Kentucky 4, Saint Louis 3, Akron 3, Santa Clara 2, McNeese State 1.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
