Kentucky earned some respect in its heartbreaking loss to No. 1 Kansas in the Champions Classic — and Reed Sheppard’s emergence certainly hasn’t hurt. The latest AP Poll just dropped and the Wildcats moved up a spot from a week ago to No. 16.
Kentucky also holds firm at No. 16 in the Coaches Poll.
Kansas remains No. 1 in the update, earning 52 of 61 first-place votes, followed by Purdue at No. 2, Arizona at No. 3, Marquette at No. 4 and UConn at No. 5. In fact, the entire top nine remains the same, followed by Miami (FL) sliding in at No.