Auburn remained atop the AP Top 25 for the seventh straight week on Monday, while preseason No. 1 Kansas dropped out of the men's college basketball for the first time in nearly four years, ending the Jayhawks' ranked run at 80 consecutive weeks.
The Tigers earned all 60 votes from the national media panel after beating Arkansas and Georgia last week. They were followed by Duke and Florida, which traded places in the poll, with Houston and Tennessee rounding out the top five. Houston has the nation's longest active streak in the Top 25 at 102 weeks.
The Jayhawks were dropped from the poll for the first time since Feb. 8, 2021, when the season was played amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That ended a record 231 consecutive weeks in the Top 25 for Kansas.
"We're 1-0," Jayhawks coach Bill Self said afterward. "That's what we're talking about, and everybody's stat sheet in what they're averaging this year is exactly what happened today -- and we're not even gonna talk about the other stuff right now."
It was the first time the Cougars had beaten ranked teams in consecutive games since 1988.
"My message to our group is, you know, whatever the next challenge in front of us, we're trying to attack it -- whether that's practice, whether that's shoot-around, whether that's a game," first-year BYU coach Kevin Young said. "I know that sounds cliche but that's really been the recipe for us, to not look any further than what we have to do at that moment."
Louisville joined Michigan State in making the biggest jump in this week's poll, climbing six spots to No. 19. The Cardinals beat Florida State in their only game last week for their fifth consecutive win, and they head into this week tied with No. 13 Clemson for second in the ACC behind the second-ranked Blue Devils.
Purdue fell seven spots to No. 20 after losses to Michigan State and Indiana, but the Boilermakers held onto a spot in the Top 25 for the 55th consecutive week. That is now the third-longest active streak behind Houston and Tennessee (76 weeks).
Kansas isn't the only team ranked highly in the preseason poll to drop out altogether this season.
Two-time defending national champion UConn was No. 3 with 11 first-place votes in October but did not appear on any ballots this week. Gonzaga was sixth, Baylor eighth and North Carolina ninth in the preseason poll -- and all are unranked.
In all, more than half of the teams in the preseason poll -- 13 of them -- failed to crack this week's Top 25.