Houston, UW and Purdue remain in the top 25 in the Associated Press men’s basketball rankings
Big changes occurred in the rest of the top 10, with North Carolina State beating then-No. 1 USA and moving up three spots to No. 4. 9 Duke and Kentucky defeated then-No. 9 and moved up six spots to No. 9. 4 Tennessee.
Houston remained atop Monday’s AP Men’s College Basketball Top 25 rankings for the third week in a row, with two of the game’s traditional experts making huge strides and peaking just in time for the postseason.
The Cougars received 52 of 62 first-place votes from a national media panel a week after defeating UCF and upsetting then-No. 14 Kansas wins the Big 12 regular season title in its first year in the league.
Houston has held the No. 1 spot for three consecutive weeks, the school’s longest streak since the 1967-68 season. “It’s rewarding. I’m happy for everyone,” Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson said.
The Cougars will be the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 Tournament and will play their season opener on Thursday. “A lot of people have an inferiority complex about the idea, ‘We’re the University of Houston.’ It’s a really good school. We live in a really good city and have a really good basketball program. Masu.
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