{"id":426985,"date":"2024-12-03T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426985"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Kansas-holds-on-to-No-1-spot-over-rising-Auburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Kansas-holds-on-to-No-1-spot-over-rising-Auburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas holds on to No. 1 spot over rising Auburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas Jayhawks maintained their hold on the top spot of the Associated Press Top 25 poll released Monday, just ahead of the surging Auburn Tigers and a new-look top five. Meanwhile, two-time defending champion UConn (5-3) dropped 23 spots to No. 25 after losing three games at the Maui Invitational. The Jayhawks (7-0) earned 35 first-place votes after defeating Duke while Auburn (7-0) snagged 26 after winning the title in Maui. Tennessee (7-0) rose four spots to No. 3, just ahead of archrival Kentucky (7-0) at No. 4, with Marquette (8-0) ascending five spots to No. 5. Iowa State (5-1), Gonzaga (7-1), Purdue (7-1), Duke (5-2) and Alabama (6-2) round out the top 10. Six teams entered the Top 25 this week, headlined by Oregon (8-0) at No. 12. No. 16 Memphis (6-1), No. 18 Pittsburgh (7-1), No. 19 Illinois (6-1), No. 21 Oklahoma (7-0) and No. 24 San Diego State (4-2) also cracked the poll this week. Indiana, Arkansas, Creighton, Xavier, Arizona and Mississippi State fell out. The rest of the Top 25: 11. Wisconsin (8-0) 12. Oregon (8-0) 13. Florida (8-0) 14. Cincinnati (6-0) 15. Baylor (5-2) 16. Memphis (6-1) 17. Houston (4-3) 18. Pittsburgh (7-1) 19. Illinois (6-1) 20. North Carolina (4-3) 21. Oklahoma (7-0) 22. Texas A&amp;M (6-2) 23. Ole Miss (6-1) 24. San Diego State (4-2) 25. UConn (5-3) &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/c192ac16b52c542d1937787f2057a9a3.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nov 27, 2024; Lahaina, Hawaii, USA; Auburn Tigers guard Chad Baker-Mazara (10) raises the winning trophy after the Tigers defeated the Memphis Tigers in Lahaina Civic Center. Mandatory Credit: Marco Garcia-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-Marco Garcia-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas Jayhawks maintained their hold on the top spot of the Associated Press Top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}