Louisville climbs to No. 6 in new AP poll

On the heels of its road wins over Pittsburgh and Duke, the Louisville men’s basketball team is up five spots to No. 6 in this week’s AP top 25 poll.

Despite winning a pair of games by a combined 73 points, Gonzaga fell from No. 1 to No. 2 in this week’s poll. The Zags were unseated at the top by Baylor, which becomes the seventh different team to grace the top of the poll this season. That ties the all-time record for most different AP No. 1 teams in a single season.

Also of note it that we now live in a world where Rutgers has a top 25 basketball team. The Scarlet Knights are No. 24 this week, marking their first appearance in the poll since 1979.

Here’s the full top 25 as we transition from mid-to-late January:

1. Baylor (33)
2. Gonzaga (31)
3. Kansas (1)
4. San Diego State
5. Florida State
6. Louisville
7. Dayton
8. Duke
9. Villanova
10. Seton Hall
11. Michigan State
12. Oregon
13. Butler
14. West Virginia
15. Kentucky
16. Auburn
17. Maryland
18. Texas Tech
19. Iowa
20. Memphis
21. Illinois
22. Arizona
23. Colorado
24. Rutgers
25. Houston

Others receiving votes: Wichita State 94, LSU 83, Michigan 73, Northern Iowa 42, Ohio State 36, Stanford 28, Wisconsin 28, Penn State 24, Liberty 21, Florida 21,Arkansas 19, Virginia 13, Creighton 13, Duquesne 13, Purdue 9, East Tennessee State 6, Indiana 6, USC 4, Marquette 2, BYU 2, Harvard 1