Stanford and Duke remained 1-2 in the Associated Press college basketball poll for the fourth straight week Monday, but there’s a new No. 3.
Defending champion Michigan State, which lost to Ohio State on Saturday, dropped from third to fifth, with Kansas and North Carolina each moving up one place to third and fourth.
There were a number of changes in the rankings following a week in which half the Top Ten lost at least one game and six other ranked teams also lost.
Arizona and Wisconsin had the week’s biggest jumps, five places to seventh and 10th, respectively, while Wake Forest, which lost to Duke and Cincinnati last week, fell seven places to 16th.
Three teams Mississippi, Texas and Connecticut dropped out of the rankings, while Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Georgia were the week’s newcomers. Poll on page 7C.
