After a catastrophic week that saw Kentucky blown out by a despised rival and struggle against a mid-major program, the Cats dropped eight spots to No. 10 in The Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll released Monday.
While UK eventually righted the ship to beat Southern Illinois by 12 on Friday night, it looked disjointed and trailed much of that game on the heels of looking completely overmatched against the now No. 1 Duke Blue Devils in an embarrassing 118-84 loss in both teams’ season openers.
Duke supplanted Kansas atop the poll, jumping from fourth to first, after its dominating win against Kentucky.