College basketball rankings: Arizona slips to 18th in AP Poll, 16th in coaches

Still not as low as they have been this season

After a road sweep, it should be expected that the Arizona Wildcats would fall quite a bit in the weekly polls.

But they're not as far down as they were at one point in the season. The team is still in the top 20, and almost the top 15 in the coaches poll.

Here's how both of the new rankings shook out this week:

AP Top 25

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS
1	Kansas (63)	25-4	1,623
2	Michigan State (2)	24-5	1,510
3	Villanova	25-4	1,479
4	Virginia	22-6	1,405
5	Xavier	25-4	1,356
6	Oklahoma	22-6	1,297
7	Miami (FL)	23-5	1,211
8	North Carolina	23-6	1,205
9	Oregon	23-6	1,065
10	West Virginia	22-7	1,056
11	Louisville	22-7	822
12	Indiana	23-6	819
13	Utah	23-7	751
14	Maryland	23-6	733
15	Purdue	22-7	613
16	Iowa	20-8	572
17	Duke	21-8	495
18	Arizona	22-7	450
19	Baylor	21-8	447
20	Texas A&M	22-7	419
21	Iowa State	20-9	413
22	Kentucky	21-8	405
23	Texas	19-10	338
24	SMU	24-4	196
25	California	21-8	178
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 93, Seton Hall 60, Wichita St 43, Saint Joseph's 29, Notre Dame 14, Texas Tech 12, Cincinnati 4, Vanderbilt 3, Saint Mary's 3, Arkansas-Little Rock 2, Valparaiso 2, Dayton 1, Stephen F. Austin 1
Dropped out: Notre Dame 23.

USA TODAY Coaches Poll

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS	PREV	HI/LOW
1	Kansas (31)	25-4	799	2	1/7
2	Villanova	25-4	734	1	1/17
3	Michigan St (1)	24-5	733	7	1/13
4	Virginia	22-6	673	3	3/13
5	Xavier	25-4	637	5	4/NR
6	Oklahoma	22-6	623	4	1/8
7	Miami-Florida	23-5	607	11	9/NR
8	North Carolina	23-6	584	6	1/11
9	West Virginia	22-7	518	12	7/23
10	Oregon	23-6	510	13	12/NR
11	Indiana	23-6	434	15	14/NR
12	Maryland	23-6	405	9	2/9
13	Purdue	22-7	330	19	8/24
13	Utah	23-7	330	23	16/NR
15	Iowa	20-8	321	8	4/NR
16	Arizona	22-7	307	10	6/20
17	Baylor	21-8	288	16	13/25
18	Texas A&M	22-7	261	21	5/NR
19	Kentucky	21-8	226	14	1/21
20	Iowa St.	20-9	221	17	2/21
21	Duke	21-8	211	18	3/NR
22	Texas	19-10	187	25	25/NR
23	Wichita St.	23-7	68	28	11/NR
24	St. Mary's	24-4	61	27	25/NR
25	California	21-8	58	32	13/NR
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 52; Notre Dame 42; Seton Hall 39; Texas Tech 36; Providence 28; St. Joseph's 17; Pittsburgh 17; South Carolina 16; Dayton 14; Valparaiso 6; St. Bonaventure 4; Colorado 2; Arkansas-Little Rock 1.
Dropped out: No. 20 Notre Dame, No. 22 Dayton, No. 24 Providence.

There's also a fourth Pac-12 team in the rankings now as Cal jumps in there after sweeping the L.A. schools this past weekend. Teams keep jumping into the top 25 right before a date with Arizona, and why should the last week of the season be any different?

I think it's pretty clear that there is no great team in college basketball; that it's just a bunch of really good teams. All the movement and uncertainty in the rankings has highlighted that fact this year. It'll be interesting to see which teams get favorable matchups or get hot at the right time when the NCAA Tournament starts in a couple weeks.

Seven AP voters left Arizona off their ballot entirely, while Cormac Gordon of the Staten Island Advance has the Wildcats 10th. No one knows anything.

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