Top 25 after Week 17
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Unlike the AP and coaches' polls, we had Kansas at No. 1 a week ago.
Therefore, we'll keep the Jayhawks in the top spot, while Syracuse now drops a spot to No. 3 following the loss at Louisville.
That means Kentucky moves up to No. 2, but the bottom line is all three have basically locked up No. 1 seeds.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Duke remains at No. 4 despite a loss in College Park against Maryland early in the week, but there was some movement among the next four teams.
West Virginia jumped three spots to No. 5 after a home win against Georgetown and a road victory over No. 7 Villanova. Bob Huggins' team has beaten a handful of Top 25 teams this season and finished the regular-season by winning five of its past six games.
Ohio State and Villanova remained at sixth and seventh, while Kansas State, which lost a pair -- at Kansas and at home to Iowa State -- this past week, slid from fifth to eighth.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Buckeyes are difficult to decipher because they were 3-3 when the National Player of the Year front-runner Evan Turner was out of the lineup. However, that means Ohio State was 21-4 with Turner in the lineup.
That's worthy of their ranking.
Purdue, which won a pair of ho-hum games this past week against Indiana and at Penn State without Robbie Hummel, remains at No. 9, and Temple stays at No. 10.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In fact, there was no movement from ninth to 14th -- with New Mexico, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh and Vanderbilt following Temple.
Tennessee made a move up two spots to No. 15 after a pair of wins, and No. 19 Baylor and No. 20 Texas A&M also climbed a pair of spots.
However, it was a Maryland team that beat Duke and also won at Virginia that was the biggest mover of the week, going from No. 25 to No. 21.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This was the first week of the season that not a single team left the Top 25 poll, which also means no one entered it this week.
WEEK 17 TOP 25
1. Kansas (29-2) *1
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}2. Kentucky (29-2) *3
3. Syracuse (28-3) *2
4. Duke (26-5) *4
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}5. West Virginia (24-6) *8
6. Ohio State (24-7) *6
7. Villanova (24-6) *7
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}8. Kansas State (24-6) *5
9. Purdue (26-4) *9
10. Temple (26-5) *10
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}11. New Mexico (28-3) *11
12. Wisconsin (23-7) *12
13. Pittsburgh (24-7) *13
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}14. Vanderbilt (23-7) *14
15. Tennessee (23-7) *17
16. Michigan State (24-7) *15
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}17. Butler (27-4) *16
18. Georgetown (20-9) *18
19. Baylor (24-6) *21
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}20. Texas A&M (22-8) * 22
21. Maryland (23-7) *25
22. Texas (23-8) *19
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}23. BYU (28-4) *20
24. Gonzaga (24-5) *23
25. Xavier (23-7) *24
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Dropped out: None .