The Gonzaga men’s basketball team, which improved to 6-0 with a 70-54 win at Indiana on Saturday, moved up to No. 4 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll.
The Zags also are ranked fourth in the USA Today-ESPN poll.
The top five teams were the same in both rankings: North Carolina, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Gonzaga and Oklahoma.
Gonzaga and Connecticut play Dec. 20 in Seattle.
Here are the complete rankings, with first-place votes in parenthesis and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote:
Associated Press
1. North Carolina (72), 1,800
2. Connecticut, 1,710
3. Pittsburgh, 1,633
4. Gonzaga, 1,574
5. Oklahoma, 1,529
6. Texas, 1,381
7. Duke, 1,256
8. Tennessee, 1,203
9. Louisville, 1,080
10. Xavier, 1,041
11. Wake Forest, 957
12. Notre Dame, 954
13. Syracuse, 869
14. Purdue, 718
15. Villanova, 713
16. UCLA, 705
17. Memphis, 579
18. Michigan St., 536
19. Georgetown, 475
20. Arizona St., 462
21. Ohio St.5-0, 435
22. Baylor, 1
23. Davidson, 8
24. Marquette, 222
25. Kansas, 206
Others receiving votes: Dayton 155, Clemson 141, Michigan 119, Miami 63, BYU 33, Florida 33, Missouri 22, LSU 21, Butler 15, Wisconsin 13, Illinois 11, Florida St. 9, Saint Mary’s, Calif. 8, Maryland 7, Texas A&M 5, Northwestern 4, Minnesota 2, Houston 1, Utah 1.
USA Today/ESPN
1. North Carolina (31), 775
2. Connecticut, 734
3. Pittsburgh, 715
4. Gonzaga, 674
5. Oklahoma, 632
6. Texas, 601
7. Duke, 551
8. Tennessee, 465
9. Xavier, 463
10. Louisville, 446
11. Wake Forest, 368
12. Villanova, 362
13. Notre Dame, 359
14. UCLA, 349
15. Memphis, 330
16. Syracuse, 317
17. Purdue, 293
18. Arizona State, 254
19. Georgetown, 246
20. Michigan State, 190
21. Ohio State, 173
22. Davidson, 143
23. Kansas7-1
24. Marquette, 102
25. Miami, 69
Others receiving votes: Baylor 65, Dayton 57, Wisconsin 43, Brigham Young 34, Clemson 29, Michigan 29, Butler 27, Florida 22, Saint Mary’s 8, Missouri 5, Maryland 3, Minnesota 2, Washington State 2, Florida State 1, West Virginia 1.
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