College basketball's regular season is over as conference tournaments have begun and will begin this week.
The major conference are just now beginning their league tourneys, and the Kentucky Wildcats enter theirs as hot as any team in the SEC. That's helped the Cats rise to No. 16 in the latest Coaches Top 25 poll, one of the highest jumps UK has made this season.
Here is the fully-updated USA Today Sports Coaches Poll:
| RANK | TEAM | RECORD | POINTS | 1ST PLACE VOTES | PREV | CHANGE | HI/LOW |
| 1 | Kansas | 27-4 | 749 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1/7 |
| 2 | Villanova | 27-4 | 696 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1/17 |
| 3 | Michigan St | 26-5 | 692 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1/13 |
| 4 | Virginia | 24-6 | 653 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3/13 |
| 5 | Xavier | 26-4 | 602 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4/NR |
| 6 | Oklahoma | 24-6 | 589 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1/8 |
| 7 | North Carolina | 25-6 | 576 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1/11 |
| 8 | West Virginia | 24-7 | 515 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 7/23 |
| 9 | Oregon | 25-6 | 510 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 9/NR |
| 10 | Indiana | 25-6 | 490 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 10/NR |
| 11 | Miami-Florida | 24-6 | 461 | 0 | 7 | -4 | 7/NR |
| 12 | Utah | 24-7 | 387 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 12/NR |
| 13 | Purdue | 24-7 | 377 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 8/24 |
| 14 | Arizona | 24-7 | 336 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 6/20 |
| 15 | Maryland | 24-7 | 306 | 0 | 12 | -3 | 2/15 |
| 16 | Kentucky | 23-8 | 285 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 1/21 |
| 17 | Texas A&M | 24-7 | 274 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 5/NR |
| 18 | Iowa | 21-9 | 220 | 0 | 15 | -3 | 4/NR |
| 19 | Iowa St. |