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Ohio State made its first appear- unbeaten at h
ance in The Associated Press college ing at Vande
basketball poll in six years this week, They rep
giving the Big Ten a record-tying sev- which entere<
en teams in the rankings. this season 1
The top six teams ? Connecticut, Golden Bear
Duke, Cincinnati, Stanford, Maryland week, beating
and Kentucky ? held their spots from to Stanford,
last week, but there were some signif- Wisconsi
icant moves in the rest of the Top 25. State and P
Wisconsin, Auburn and Iowa all the biggest ju
made a jump of at least five places, while Auburn, the
Indiana, Arkansas, Purdue and Clem- I team, beat
son all fell at least four spots. week to move
Ohio State (13-3) came in at No. 21 which beat 111
and joined fellow Big Ten teams week, climbei
Iowa, Purdue, Michigan State, Wis- Indiana's
consin, Minnesota and Indiana in the Ohio State dr
Top 25. . 13th to No. 2(
The Big Ten was the first confer- Auburn and 1
ence to have seven teams in one poll, to 24th. Both
on Jan. 11,1993, a number matched by 25 Clemson d
the Atlantic Coast Conference on Dec.
1,1997, and again the next week. Women's Top
The big difference in the three The Tenr
groups of seven is that Michigan was back where tl
the highest ranked of the first Big Ten Nine weel
bunch at No. 2, and No. 1 Duke led the 1 ranking in 1
ACC group. The highest ranked team ketball poll,
from the Big Ten this week is No. 12 to the top Moi
Iowa. * ning a 92-81 s
Connecticut (13-0) b.eld the No. 1 Tennesset
spot for the seventh straight week af- first-place vot
ter beating Boston College and West panel to mow
Virginia. The Huskies received 55 first- and displace (
place votes and 1,756 points from the had led the pi
media panel. "That's th
Duke (15-1), which beat Georgia try," said Cor
Tech and Virginia by a combined 87 riemma. "I'v
points, had 13 No. 1 votes and 1,700 The Lady
points. ceived as the
Cincinnati (15-0) received the oth- won 12 straig
er three first-place votes. The Bearcats Purdue in the
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Maryland, Kentucky, Arizona, Auburn, and dropped
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o T the'eams mee? State, Indiana, Arkansas and Clemson. Tennessee
Fogler said this week. "To me It's over and ohio State ranked for twQ week$ ^
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is last week, 78-74 in over- tional championship, and coach Pat
onsin and 73-56 over In- Summitt's team began this season as
uckeyes, 8-22 last season a unanimous choice for the top spot.
iar coach Jim O'Brien, are The loss at Purdue dropped the Laome
with their losses com- dy Vols to fourth and Purdue became
rbilt, Toledo and Miami. N0. 1 for the first time. The Boilerlaced
California (10-3), makers then lost at Stanford and were
i the poll for the first time replaced at the top the next week by
ast week at No. 25. The Connecticut,
s split their games last Tennessee received 1,023 points in
' Oregon State and losing voting _ two short of the maxi....
... . . mum. Connecticut had 967 points
n, which beat Michigan mireceived 945
urdue last week made No 4 Georgia (14.Q) and No 5
?"k . rr ? " Louisiana Tech (12-2) kept the spots
third unbeaten Division ,, , ,,, , , ,
Arkansas and LSU last thf ,held laf ^ 7?
to No. 8 from 14th. Iowa. tw0 .f s this season
inois in its only game last abama and Florida, but the Lady Bulli
five spots to 12th dogs Wl11 &et a chance to see how they
losses to Michigan and measure up when they play at Ten-,
opped the Hoosiers from" nessee on Thursday.
). Arkansas, which lost to No. 6 Texas Tech and No. 7 North
Mississippi, fell five spots Carolina traded places, and were foll
No. 13 Purdue and No. lowed by Colorado State, Notre Dame
iropped four places. mid UCLA.
Old Dominion remained at No. 11
125 and Duke moved up one spot to 12th.
lessee women are right Then it was Virginia Tech, Iowa State,
bey started: on top. Rutgers and Clemson, followed by Ohio
ts after giving up the No. State, Florida, Alabama and Penn State,
rhe Associated Press bas- Boston College, Virginia, Kansas,
the Lady Vols returned Nebraska and Auburn held the final
iday?the day after win- five places. *
howdown at Connecticut. Auburn (12-2) gained its first rank*
(13-1) received 39 of 41 ing since the week of Jan. 13,1997,
es from a national media when it tied for 21st. This the 19th
e up from the No. 2 spot straight season the Tigers have ap_,onnecticut
(13-1), which peared in the poll, and coach Joe Ciampi
oil for seven weeks. needs just one victory to reach 500 for
e best team m the coun- ^ career
mecticut coach Geno Au- Memphis, 24th last week, dropped
VrT I , out after a 47-point loss at Tulane. It
o s ce am > are per- wag secon(j ioss jn three games
best team now. They ve r . .
?ht since a 78-68 loss at f?r Me^1S after a nine"game win"
; second game of the sea- mnf.f.re ' j4.ukr
average victory margin . Ohio State made the biggest jmnp
as been 25 points. in the P?U' SoinS fr?m 23rd 10
:ut had a 54-game home ter tones ?vf Wisconsin and Illik
broken by Sunday's loss nois" Boston College> which made the
to second Purdue (11-1) PoB ^or ^me ^as^ week, won
after escaping with an three games and jumped four places to
ory at Iowa and received ^lst.
first-place votes. Clemson, 2-1 during the week, fell
as the lone newcomer, rid- four places to 16th for the biggest drop
ame winning streak into within the poll. The Tigers' loss was to
i. 25. North Carolina,
was ranked No. 1 in eveiy Auburn became the 36th team to
ut last season en route to make the poll this season. The record
and its third straight na- is 45 in the 1991-92 season.
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