With many schools taking a break from basketball for the week, there was not a lot of movement in this week’s AP poll. Baylor, Duke, Purdue, Gonzaga, and UCLA held down the No. 1-5 spots, respectively, with Baylor finally securing all of the first-place votes.
That lone hold out came from the bold voter who granted Tommy Lloyd’s previously undefeated Arizona Wildcats a first-place vote. A narrow road loss to Tennessee erased that goodwill, and Arizona dropped from No. 6 to No. 9, providing the slight shaking in the top 10.
The biggest drop came from, unfortunately, the Alabama Crimson Tide.