AP Top 25 Poll released: Tennessee now SEC’s highest-ranked, Florida joins poll
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The final AP Poll of the regular season has just been released. Of course, next week the NCAA Tournament will begin, while this week the SEC Tournament in St. Louis is set to start on Wednesday.
In this week’s poll, Tennessee has jumped Auburn to become the highest-ranked SEC team in the nation. Kentucky also fell from the rankings while Florida jumped into the poll after beating the Wildcats last week.
Here are the three teams from the SEC that made it into the latest AP poll:
#13 – Tennessee (23-7); #16 last week
#16 – Auburn (25-6); #14 last week
#23 — Florida (20-11); Not ranked last week
The rest of the poll:
#1 Virginia, #2Villanova, #3 Xavier, #4 Michigan State, #5 Duke, #6 Gonzaga, #7 Michigan, #8 Cincinnati, #9 Kansas, #10 Purdue, #11 Wichita State, #12 North Carolina, #14 Texas Tech, #15 Arizona, #17 Ohio State, #18 West Virginia, #19 Clemson, #20 Saint Mary’s, #21 Houston, #22 Nevada, #24 Miami, #25 Rhode Island.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
