NEW YORK: Indiana is still No. 1 in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll. The holiday weekend tournaments caused a lot of change below.
Duke moved up to take Louisville’s old spot at No. 2 after beating the Cardinals in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis. Michigan moved up one place to third. There were four newcomers to the Top 25 on Monday, all ranked in the last five: Georgetown, Minnesota, Illinois and New Mexico.
Indiana received 47 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel, 29 more than Duke, which jumped three places.
Ohio State, Louisville, Syracuse, Florida, Kentucky, Arizona and Kansas round out the Top 10.
The teams that dropped out were UCLA, which was 11th, and Memphis, both of which lost two games last week. Connecticut and Baylor fell out after losing once.
NC State sophomore forward de Thaey leaving program to return to native Belgium
North Carolina State forward Thomas de Thaey is leaving the Wolfpack program.
The school said Monday that the sophomore will return to his native Belgium to be with his ill father and pursue professional basketball opportunities there.
The school said de Thaey met with coach Mark Gottfried on Sunday, then notified the coaching staff Monday that he would return to Belgium.
The 6-foot-8 forward played in 22 games and averaged 1.7 points and 1.3 rebounds over his career.
North Carolina State, ranked No. 18, travels to third-ranked Michigan on Tuesday in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Stanford stays No. 1 in women’s basketball poll Meantime, Stanford remains No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll, narrowly ahead of Connecticut.
The Cardinal took over the top spot last week for the first time in seven years. They had 21 first-place votes Monday, and UConn had 17. Baylor has the other one.
Stanford won its only game this week, beating Long Beach State on Sunday.
Duke and Notre Dame are fourth and fifth.
The Irish are followed by Penn State, Louisville, Georgia, Kentucky and California. The Golden Bears switched places with Maryland.
Iowa State entered the poll at No. 24, replacing Vanderbilt, which lost both its games last week to fall out from No. 17. West Virginia dropped 13 spots to No. 25 after losing to LSU and Iowa.
Indiana still on top of AP Top 25; Duke moves to No. 2
