Men’s basketball AP poll: Tennessee takes over at No. 1 after Kansas drops back-to-back games

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Kansas fell to both Creighton and Missouri this past week. (AP/L.G. Patterson)

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Kansas drops back-to-back games

Everything was going great for the Jayhawks up until last week. They started out the season as the top-ranked team in the sport for a second straight year, and they picked up solid top-10 wins over both North Carolina and Duke early in the season.

Suddenly, though, Kansas has slipped completely out of the top 10 after dropping two straight games to unranked teams. The Jayhawks came in at No. 10 in this week’s poll, which paved the way for Tennessee to take their spot at No. 1.

First it was Creighton, who rolled to a commanding 13-point win over the Jayhawks on Wednesday night. Star center Ryan Kalkbrenner, who was questionable going into the game with an injury, finished with a double-double and limited Kansas preseason All-American Hunter Dickinson to just six points and a pair of field goals the entire night.

That win, which came shortly after Creighton lost three straight and fell out of the national rankings completely, brought the Bluejays back to the cusp of the rankings this week. They received 32 votes. They will be without star Pop Isaacs for the rest of the season, however. Isaacs, who had 27 points in the upset win over Kansas, is set to undergo hip surgery.

Then on Sunday, Missouri held on after nearly blowing a 14-point halftime lead to grab a 76-67 win over the Jayhawks in Columbia. The Jayhawks had 22 turnovers as a team.

“This last week, we haven’t been any good at all the last five days,” Kansas coach Bill Self said, via 247Sports. “So I don’t know that we’re close to finding an identity yet. Because who are we? … I’ll be honest with you, I think right now, we’re kind of in a situation that it’d be hard for me to say from game to game what we are.”

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Publish date : 2024-12-09 18:08:00

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