College Basketball AP Top 25: Tennessee, Vandy rise as Alabama, Florida drop
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College basketball’s “Feast Week” provided a tremendous opportunity to gauge where the sport’s supposed best teams stand as we enter December. Some SEC schools got the results they were looking to receive. Others? Not so much.
Alabama (No. 12) is still the highest-ranked SEC team in the AP poll, but the conference no longer has any top 10 squads. The Crimson Tide also experienced one of the bigger drops (-4) in the poll following their loss to Gonzaga in the Players Era Festival. Another SEC team, Florida, fell 5 spots after losing to TCU.
While those SEC schools went backward, the Volunteer State used Feast Week as a springboard. Tennessee leapt 4 rungs despite a loss to Kansas because of a win against previously unbeaten Houston. And Vanderbilt, who entered the AP Poll for the first time last week, made the biggest jump, going from No. 24 to No. 17 after winning the Battle 4 Atlantis.
Overall, the SEC still boasts the most teams (7) in the AP poll ahead of the ACC-SEC challenge. You can see the full AP poll below:
- 1 – Purdue
- 2 – Arizona
- 3 – Michigan
- 4 – Duke
- 5 – UCONN
- 6 – Louisville
- 7 – Michigan State
- 8 – Houston
- 9 – BYU
- 10 – Iowa State
- 11 – Gonzaga
- 12 – Alabama
- 13 – Tennessee
- 14 – Illinois
- 15 – Florida
- 16 – North Carolina
- 17 – Vanderbilt
- 18 – Kentucky
- 19 – Texas Tech
- 20 – Auburn
- 21 – Kansas
- 22 – Indiana
- 23 – St. John’s
- 24 – USC
- 25 – Arkansas
