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The latest college basketball Associated Press Poll has been released. Five teams from the B1G have cracked the Top 25.
Despite a Thursday road loss to unranked Indiana, Purdue is still the conference’s highest-ranked team at No. 6. The Boilermakers bounced back with a 20-point victory over Northwestern to improve to 16-3 on the season.
Michigan State was the only other team from the B1G to land in the Top 10 with a 15-3 record. The Spartans posted an 86-74 victory over Wisconsin in Madison on Friday after a surprising loss to Northwestern a week earlier.
Wisconsin, Ohio State and Illinois were the B1G’s other three teams to crack the Top 25. Here’s a look at the complete AP Poll:
#1 Auburn
#2 Gonzaga
#3 Arizona
#4 Baylor
#5 Kansas
#6 Purdue
#7 UCLA (T)
#7 Houston (T)
#9 Duke
#10 Michigan State
#11 Wisconsin
#12 Kentucky
#13 Texas Tech
#14 Villanova
#15 USC
#16 Ohio State
#17 Providence
#18 Tennessee
#19 LSU
#20 UConn
#21 Xavier
#22 Marquette
#23 Iowa State
#24 Illinois
#25 Davidson
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB