For the third time this season, Houston, having won seven straight and 16 of its last 17 games, is back at No. 1 in the AP poll, receiving 48 of the 62 first-place votes on Monday morning.
The NCAA men’s basketball selection committee projected UH, a team that currently holds the top spot in both the NCAA NET rankings and KenPom ratings, as the Midwest Region’s No. 1 seed and the tournament’s No. 2 overall seed during Saturday’s early bracket reveal.
Both of the Cougars’ previous two stints occupying the top spot in the AP poll lasted two weeks, the first from Nov.