The Kentucky Wildcats (6-0) received 40 first-place votes Monday from the 65-member national media panel while Villanova, also known as the Wildcats, was No. 1 on 20 ballots.
North Carolina (7-0), which moved up one place to third after winning the Maui Invitational, got four No. 1 votes. Kansas, Duke and Virginia all moved up one place to fourth through sixth. Xavier moved up two places to seventh and Gonzaga went up three spots to eighth.
Baylor (6-0), which beat Michigan State and Louisville in winning the Battle 4 Atlantis, got the other first-place vote and was followed in the Top 10 by Creighton.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Kentucky (40) | 6-0 | 1590 | 1 |
| 2. Villanova (20) | 6-0 | 1567 | 2 |
| 3. North Carolina (4) | 7-0 | 1497 | 4 |
| 4. Kansas | 5-1 | 1414 | 5 |
| 5. Duke | 6-1 | 1365 | 6 |
| 6. Virginia | 6-0 | 1286 | 7 |
| 7. Xavier | 6-0 | 1181 | 9 |
| 8. Gonzaga | 6-0 | 1112 | 11 |
| 9. Baylor (1) | 6-0 | 1068 | 20 |
| 10. Creighton | 6-0 | 965 | 12 |
| 11. UCLA | 7-0 | 955 | 14 |
| 12. Saint Mary's (Cal) | 5-0 | 866 | 15 |
| 13. Indiana | 4-1 | 857 | 3 |
| 14. Louisville | 5-1 | 808 | 10 |
| 15. Purdue | 5-1 | 687 | 17 |
| 16. Arizona | 5-1 | 655 | 8 |
| 17. Wisconsin | 5-2 | 555 | 16 |
| 18. Butler | 6-0 | 506 | — |
| 19. Iowa St. | 5-1 | 389 | 21 |
| 20. South Carolina | 6-0 | 379 | — |
| 21. Rhode Island | 5-1 | 354 | 23 |
| 22. Syracuse | 4-1 | 229 | 18 |
| 23. Oregon | 4-2 | 189 | 13 |
| 24. Florida | 6-1 | 154 | — |
| 25. West Virginia | 4-1 | 132 | 19 |
