College basketball rankings: Gonzaga is No. 1 while UK and Duke slip in coaches poll

Here's the strange thing: a boatload of losses don't kick any ranked teams out of the top 25

By Matt Norlander

Jan 30, 2017 at 1:48 pm ET • 1 min read

Here's a dose of ridiculousness. We're coming off the most topsy-turvy week of upsets in the rankings this season in college basketball, right? Right. There were 14 ranked teams that took on a total of 17 losses in the previous seven days.

Yet the newest coaches poll doesn't have one team from last week's rankings outside the top 25 this week. We've got a lot of shifting, but no new teams to the fold. Northwestern -- which is one of the best stories in college hoops right now -- along with SMU, USC and Miami, they're all on the outside looking in.

We do have Gonzaga at No. 1, as the Bulldogs move up after Villanova and Kansas took losses last week. The Bulldogs are now the top team on both polls.

Kentucky only drops two spots despite losing two games. Louisville, which has a better record than Kentucky and defeated the Wildcats in December, is a spot behind. Wisconsin nearly lost to Rutgers, yet jumps from 15th to ninth. It's a weird week in the polls. Florida State's slip from No. 8 to No. 16 is the biggest drop this week.

Here's the coaches poll in full, with a league-by-league tally below:

Coaches poll

The top 25 teams in the USA Today men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 29, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

	Record	Pts	Pvs
1. Gonzaga (24)	22-0	785	3
2. Kansas (7)	19-2	749	1
3. Baylor	20-1	720	5
4. Villanova (1)	20-2	719	2
5. Arizona	20-2	672	9
6. Kentucky	17-4	583	4
7. Louisville	18-4	525	14
8. UCLA	19-3	518	7
9. Wisconsin	18-3	509	15
10. North Carolina	19-4	499	6
11. Virginia	16-4	470	13
12. West Virginia	17-4	457	18
13. Oregon	19-3	451	10
14. Cincinnati	19-2	360	19
15. Butler	18-4	328	11
16. Florida State	18-4	321	8
17. Maryland	19-2	253	23
18. Notre Dame	17-5	228	12
19. Saint Mary's	19-2	214	21
20. South Carolina	17-4	191	24
21. Duke	16-5	165	17
22. Creighton	19-3	159	16
23. Florida	16-5	137	25
24. Purdue	17-5	106	20
25. Xavier	15-6	97	22

Others receiving votes: Northwestern 73, SMU 33, Southern Cal 24, Miami 19, Middle Tennessee 9, UNC-Wilmington 8, New Mexico State 7, Indiana 3, Nevada 3, Wichita State 3, Akron 1, Kansas State 1.