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Nevada basketball jumps up to seventh in AP Top 25 national poll

Nevada is on the move again.

The Wolf Pack jumped from 10thto seventh in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll released Monday, following a week in which 13 ranked teams lost at least once.

Nevada, 18-1 overall and 5-1 in Mountain West games, won twice last week. The Wolf Pack next plays Saturday against Colorado State.

Tennessee (16-1) is the new No. 1, taking over from Duke. The Volunteers were followed by Duke, Virginia, Gonzaga, and Michigan. Michigan State, one of four teams to receive a first-place vote, was sixth.

The Wolf Pack totaled 1,143 points from the 64-member poll, comfortably ahead of Kentucky’s 1,087 in eighth.