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College Basketball Top 25 Polls Updated: Kentucky Basketball Falls Hard

The latest round of college basketball polls following what may go down as the craziest week of this season.

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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
2
Points
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
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