Coming off a 21-day period with no games and missing two starters wasn’t a recipe for great basketball. The Arizona Wildcats struggled to put away Washington State at home on Friday, then they fell to USC on the road on Sunday. The result was dropping three spots in the Associated Press Top 25 to No. 7.
POLL ALERT: South Carolina beats 2 more ranked teams to remain No. 1; Tennessee moves up to its best ranking since 2015.
Full poll: https://t.co/3ytYOCGqd1 pic.twitter.com/CYdpkUWw8p— AP Top 25 (@AP_Top25) January 10, 2022The Wildcats had been in the Top 5 for four weeks heading into their first week of Pac-12 play, but they hadn’t been on the court to defend that ranking for most of that time.