1. Texas (56)
2. Kentucky (9)
3. Kansas
4. Villanova
5. Syracuse
6. Purdue
7. Michigan State
8. Duke
9. Tennessee (up 7)
10. West Virginia
11. Georgetown
12. North Carolina
13. Kansas State
13. Wisconsin (up 7)
15. Connecticut
16. Pittsburgh (up 7)
17. Gonzaga
18. Brigham Young (up 7)
19. Temple
20. Georgia Tech
21. Mississippi (down 
22. Baylor (NR)
23. Miami FL (NR)
24. Clemson (NR)
25. Florida State (down 7)
Top 5 outside looking in: Texas A&M, Northern Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi State, New Mexico.
Dropped out: New Mexico (15), Texas Tech (22), Washington (24).
Notes: There you have it. The Pac-10 doesn’t have a team ranked for the first time since Feb. 24, 1987. Clemson gets back into the rankings after dropping out for one week. New Mexico’s back-to-back losses cost it a ranking. Kansas State’s loss at Missouri doesn’t cost it much in the polls, and neither does Georgia Tech’s loss to Georgia, thanks to the Yellow Jackets’ win over Duke. Is Tennessee really one of the 10 best teams in the country right now, though?
Conference breakdown:
- Big East: 6
- Atlantic Coast: 5
- Big 10: 4
- Big XII: 4
- Southeastern: 3
- Mountain West: 1
- Atlantic 10: 1
- West Coast: 1
