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The Kentucky Wildcats are in danger of achieving the rare feat of opening a season as the No. 1 team and managing to fall out of the top 25 completely.
Ironically, the last team to do it was UK back in the 2013-14 season before making a miraculous NCAA Tournament run and making it to the national title game. It remains to be seen if this team has it in them to make that kind of run, but they're close to having to do so after nearly falling out of the top 25 as well.
This week's USA Today Coaches Poll had the Cats checking in at No. 19, six spots down from last week's No. 13 ranking. It probably would have been worse had so many other top-25 teams lost last week. Among the top -15 teams losing were the Kansas Jayhawks, Maryland Terrapins, Michigan State Spartans (twice), Miami Hurricanes (twice), Duke Blue Devils (twice), and West Virginia Mountaineers.
In other words, outside of maybe the top three or four teams, it's a toss up as to who should be ranked where within the rest of the top 25. This is truly shaping up to be March Madness at its finest.
Here's the updated USA Today Coaches Poll:
TOP 25 TEAMS, WEEK 11
| RANK | TEAM | RECORD | POINTS | 1ST PLACE VOTES | PREV | CHANGE | HI/LOW |
| 1 | Oklahoma | 15-1 | 763 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1/8 |
| 2 | North Carolina | 16-2 | 727 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1/11 |
| 3 | Kansas | 15-2 | 700 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 1/7 |
| 4 | Villanova | 16-2 | 674 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4/17 |
| 5 | Maryland | 16-2 | 629 | 0 | 3 | -2 | 2/9 |
| 6 | Xavier | 16-1 | 616 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6/NR |
| 7 | West Virginia | 15-2 | 585 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 7/23 |
| 8 | Texas A&M | 15-2 | 532 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 8/NR |
| 9 | Iowa | 14-3 | 494 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 9/NR |
| 10 | Michigan St | 16-3 | 461 | 0 | 4 | -6 | 1/13 |
| 11 | Arizona | 15-3 | 438 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 6/16 |
| 12 | Duke | 14-4 | 360 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 3/12 |
| 13 | Virginia | 13-4 | 340 | 0 | 11 | -2 | 4/13 |
| 14 | Miami-Florida | 13-3 | 319 | 0 | 9 | -5 | 9/NR |
| 15 | Baylor | 14-3 | 306 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 14/25 |
| 16 | Louisville | 14-3 | 288 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 15/NR |
| 17 | Providence | 15-3 | 269 | 0 | 12 | -5 | 9/NR |
| 18 | South Carolina | 16-1 | 231 | 0 | 15 | -3 | 15/NR |
| 19 | Kentucky | 13-4 | 206 | 0 | 13 | -6 | 1/19 |
| 20 | Pittsburgh | 15-2 | 179 | 0 | 17 | -3 | 17/NR |
| 21 | Iowa St. | 13-4 | 173 | 0 | 18 | -3 | 2/21 |
| 22 | Purdue | 15-3 | 167 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 8/24 |
| 23 | Indiana | 15-3 | 162 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 14/NR |
| 24 | Butler | 13-4 | 156 | 0 | 23 | -1 | 10/NR |
| 25 | Southern California | 15-3 | 103 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 25/NR |
And here is the new AP Poll, where UK fell nine spots down to the No. 23 spot:
| 1 |  |
Oklahoma (65)
Record: 15-1
|
PV Rank
2Points
1,625 |
| 2 |  |
Record: 16-2
|
5
1,515
|
| 3 |  |
Record: 15-2
|
1
1,499
|
| 4 |  |
Record: 16-2
|
6
1,403
|
| 5 |  |
Record: 16-1
|
7
1,321
|
| 6 |  |
Record: 15-2
|
11
1,278
|
| 7 |  |
Record: 16-2
|
3
1,259
|
| 8 |  |
Record: 17-0
|
10
1,179
|
| 9 |  |
Record: 14-3
|
16
1,167
|
| 10 |  |
Record: 15-2
|
15
994
|
| 11 |  |
Record: 16-3
|
4
950
|
| 12 |  |
Record: 15-3
|
18
801
|
| 13 |  |
Record: 13-4
|
13
649
|
| 13 |  |
Record: 14-3
|
22
649
|
| 15 |  |
Record: 13-3
|
8
645
|
| 16 |  |
Record: 15-3
|
12
609
|
| 17 |  |
Record: 14-3
|
21
608
|
| 18 |  |
Record: 13-4
|
23
439
|
| 19 |  |
Record: 13-4
|
17
411
|
| 20 |  |
Record: 14-4
|
9
375
|
| 21 |  |
Record: 15-3
|
26
338
|
| 22 |  |
Record: 15-3
|
24
322
|
| 23 |  |
Record: 13-4
|
14
276
|
| 24 |  |
Record: 16-1
|
19
252
|
| 25 |  |
Record: 15-3
|
27
210
|