Iowa State Moves into AP Top 25
March 5th, 2012 by Jim Field
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State is ranked 25th in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll.
It’s the first time the Cyclones (22-9, 12-6) have been ranked in the AP poll since November of 2005 — a drought that lasted 130 weeks.
Iowa State is coming off an 80-72 win over then-No. 9 Baylor in Saturday’s regular-season finale.
The Cyclones earned the No. 3 seed for the Big 12 tournament and will face sixth-seeded Texas in Kansas City on Thursday at 8:30 p.m.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through March 4, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Kentucky (63) | 30-1 | 1,623 | 1 |
| 2. Syracuse (2) | 30-1 | 1,561 | 2 |
| 3. Kansas | 26-5 | 1,482 | 3 |
| 4. North Carolina | 27-4 | 1,442 | 6 |
| 5. Missouri | 27-4 | 1,343 | 7 |
| 6. Duke | 26-5 | 1,262 | 4 |
| 7. Ohio St. | 25-6 | 1,251 | 10 |
| 8. Michigan St. | 24-7 | 1,149 | 5 |
| 9. Marquette | 25-6 | 1,087 | 8 |
| 10. Michigan | 23-8 | 945 | 13 |
| 11. Murray St. | 30-1 | 922 | 12 |
| 12. Baylor | 25-6 | 909 | 9 |
| 13. Georgetown | 22-7 | 873 | 11 |
| 14. Wisconsin | 23-8 | 853 | 14 |
| 15. Indiana | 24-7 | 707 | 18 |
| 16. Wichita St. | 27-5 | 492 | 15 |
| 17. Florida St. | 21-9 | 468 | 22 |
| 18. San Diego St. | 24-6 | 441 | 21 |
| 19. Creighton | 28-5 | 364 | 25 |
| 20. UNLV | 25-7 | 360 | 17 |
| 21. Temple | 24-6 | 343 | 23 |
| 22. Florida | 22-9 | 305 | 16 |
| 23. Notre Dame | 21-10 | 256 | 20 |
| 24. Gonzaga | 25-5 | 170 | — |
| 25. Iowa St. | 22-9 | 127 | — |
Others receiving votes: Saint Mary’s (Cal) 88, Louisville 84, Drexel 83, New Mexico 64, Virginia 34, Memphis 13, VCU 6, Vanderbilt 6, Cincinnati 5, Long Beach St. 3, Kansas St. 2, Harvard 1, Saint Louis 1.
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