{"id":532299,"date":"2026-01-12T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:25:14","slug":"ap-top-25-poll-college-basketball-rankings-see-michigan-drop-after-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532299\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Top 25 poll: College basketball rankings see Michigan drop after first loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Entering last weekend, six Division I college basketball teams stood as undefeated. That number shrank to five after Michigan<\/a> suffered an upset home loss to Wisconsin<\/a> as a 19.5-point favorite. That result caused some shakeup in the second AP Top 25 college basketball poll of 2026, with Iowa State<\/a> moving to No. 2 as a result.<\/p>\n

With the loss to Wisconsin, Michigan dropped two spots to No. 4. The Wolverines also had an upset scare earlier in the week against Penn State<\/a>, but escaped with a 74-72 win after the Nittany Lions missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n

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College basketball rankings: Why it could be a while before undefeated Vanderbilt loses its first game<\/p>\n

\n Gary Parrish <\/p>\n

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With Iowa State moving up one spot to No. 2 in the poll, it ties its highest ranking in program history. The Cyclones checked in at No. 2 in the poll last season, which was (at the time) the highest ranking in program history. Iowa State sits at 16-0 entering the week, with a critical showdown on the road against Kansas<\/a> looming.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Jayhawks, Kansas dropped out of the poll after another loss in Big 12 play. Kansas fell to 1-2 against Big 12 competition after suffering an 86-75 loss to West Virginia<\/a>. The Jayhawks earned their first conference win of the season earlier in the week after a dramatic comeback win against TCU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AP Top 25<\/p>\n

1. Arizona<\/a> (60)
2. Iowa State (1)
3. UConn<\/a>
4. Michigan
5. Purdue<\/a>
6. Duke<\/a>
7. Houston<\/a>
8. Nebraska<\/a>
9. Gonzaga<\/a>
10. Vanderbilt<\/a>
11. BYU<\/a>
12. Michigan State
13. Illinois<\/a>
14. North Carolina<\/a>
15. Texas Tech<\/a>
16. Virginia<\/a>
17. Arkansas<\/a>
18. Alabama<\/a>
19. Florida<\/a>
20. Louisville<\/a>
21. Georgia<\/a>
22. Clemson<\/a>
23. Utah State<\/a>
24. Tennessee<\/a>
25. Seton Hall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Entering last weekend, six Division I college basketball teams stood as undefeated. That number shrank to five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7998,47372,382,1982,7,73478,3294,63929,217,37927,6133,691,6721,7367,8577,7368,3730,73477,1043,231,772,61018,1544,63930,8905,1770,5972,1797,20705],"class_list":["post-532299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-ap-top-25","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-wildcats","tag-basketball","tag-brackets","tag-byu-cougars","tag-cbb-rankings","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-rankings","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-iowa-state","tag-iowa-state-cyclones","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-michigan-ranking","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-basketball-rankings","tag-ncaab","tag-ncaab-rankings","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-seton-hall-pirates","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}