{"id":547189,"date":"2026-01-19T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:18:20","slug":"its-unanimous-arizona-mens-basketball-locks-up-ap-no-1-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547189\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s unanimous: Arizona men\u2019s basketball locks up AP No. 1 ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona is the No. 1 team in the country. And this time, it\u2019s unanimous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Wildcats received every first-place vote in this week\u2019s Associated Press Top 25. UConn is ranked No. 2, followed by No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Purdue and No. 5 Duke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona has been ranked No. 1 in the AP poll for seven straight weeks, marking the program\u2019s second-longest run atop the rankings. In 2013-14, the Wildcats were ranked No. 1 for eight straight weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona can tie that mark if it takes care of business this week with home matchups against Cincinnati on Wednesday and West Virginia on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona is one of six Big 12 programs ranked, joined by No. 6 Houston, No. 9 Iowa State, No. 12 Texas Tech, No. 13 BYU and No. 19 Kansas. UCF, who Arizona beat 84-77 on Saturday, received 14 votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UA is one of three remaining undefeated teams. The other unbeatens are No. 8 Nebraska and No. 25 Miami (Ohio).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona was also the unanimous No. 1 team in the USA Today Coaches poll this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona is the No. 1 team in the country. And this time, it\u2019s unanimous. The Wildcats received every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[9763,7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-547189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-arizona-basketball","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115923144106777598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547189","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=547189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}