MBB Week 9: Four teams split No. 1 votes; UConn falls to No. 15

A weekend full of upsets sees the top four tighten up, while five new teams enter the rankings. Last week’s No. 4, UConn, falls 11 spots to No. 15.

Rank	Team	Points	Trend
1	11 Houston	534	–
2	8 Kansas	527	–
3	1 Purdue	506	–
4	2 Alabama	493	+1
5	UCLA	458	+3
6	Texas	433	+3
7	Gonzaga	390	+3
8	Tennessee	382	-2
9	Xavier	376	+4
10	Virginia	346	+2
11	Arizona	304	-4
12	Iowa State	301	+5
13	TCU	274	+3
14	Kansas State	263	–
15	UConn	207	-11
16	Auburn	188	+6
17	Miami (FL)	169	-2
18	Marquette	160	NR
19	Clemson	135	NR
20	Charleston	126	+1
21	Baylor	106	+4
22	Providence	90	+1
23	Rutgers	90	NR
24	Florida Atlantic	63	NR
25	Saint Mary’s	62	NR

Italicized numbers to the left of school names signify number of first-place votes

New entrants: Marquette (18), Clemson (19), Rutgers (23), Florida Atlantic (24), Saint Mary’s (25)

Dropped out: Arkansas (11), Wisconsin (18), Missouri (19), Duke (20), Indiana (24)

Receiving votes: Arkansas (43), North Carolina State (32), Illinois (27), New Mexico (19), Arizona State (16), San Diego State (6), Boise State (5), Indiana (4), Creighton (4), North Carolina (3), St. John’s (3), Kent State (2), Ohio State (1), Iowa (1), Kentucky (1)

A full breakdown of individual ballots cast by each voter can be found here.

(Image credit: Dknights411, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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