UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Tuesday, March 14, 1995 3B Basketball rankings show parity The Associated Press College basketball's season of parity couldn't have been presented any clearer than in the weekly rankings. When the final Associated Press poll was released yesterday with UCLA on top for the third straight week, it capped a season that had six No. 1 teams, including a five-week period with a different one each week. There were also 45 schools from 14 conferences ranked at some point. The six No. 15 record was one off the record set in the 1982-83 season, and the 45 schools record was three off the record set in 1992-93. UCLA (25-2), which received all but one first-place vote for the second straight week, was named No. 1 on 64 ballots from the national media panel. The Bruins had 1,624 points, 72 more than Kentucky (25-4), which received the other first-place vote. The Wildcats, who won the Southeastern Conference championship in overtime over Arkansas on Sunday, moved up one spot from last week. Wake Forest (24-5), which beat North Carolina in overtime Sunday to win the Atlantic Coast Conference, jumped from seventh to third. That's where the NCAA selection committee and the poll broke ranks. The NCAA field has Kansas as the fourth of the No.1 seeds, but North Carolina (24-5) held fourth in the poll, its lowest ranking of the season. Kansas (23-5) was fifth, dropping from second after losing in the semifinals of the Big Eight tournament. The Jayhawks were followed by Arkansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Villanova and Maryland. Michigan State led the second 10 and was followed by Purdue, Virginia, Oklahoma State, Arizona, Arizona State, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Utah and Alabama. Western Kentucky, Georgetown, Missouri, Iowa State and Syracuse were the final five teams in the poll. Iowa State was the only newcomer to the rankings, returning after a one-week absence following the tournament win over Kansas. The Cyclones (22-10) replaced Oregon (19-8), which had re-entered the rankings last week at No. 25, but split two games, beating Southern Cal and losing to UCLA. The six schools that reached No.1 were Arkansas, the preseason choice as defending national champion; Massachusetts, North Carolina, Connecticut, Kansas and UCLA. North Carolina spent the most time there — six weeks, one more than Massachusetts. The five-week period with a different team at No. I ended when UCLA stayed on the rankings. The news isn't all good for the Bruins about being No.1 entering the tournament. The last two top-ranked teams to win it all were North Carolina in 1982 and Duke in 1992. The Big Ten Conference had the most teams ranked during the season with eight and was followed by the ACC with seven, Pac-10 and Big Eight Conferences with six each and the Southeastern Conference and Big East Conference with five ranked teams. No other conference had more than one team ranked during the year. Thirteen schools ran the table in the rankings from preseason poll to the finale with four — North Carolina, Massachusetts, Kentucky and UCLA — never falling out of the top ten. At the other end there were three one-week wonders: St. John's, Clemson and Xavier, Ohio. The highest ranked team in the final poll that wasn't in the presseason Top 25 was No.14 Purdue, the Big Ten champion. The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' basketball bowl poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, record through March 18. AP Top 25 noble enough means x2 rank team rae pts. pr nick team rec pts. pt. 1 UCLA (64) 25-2 1,624 1 2 Kentucky (1) 25-4 1,584 3 3 Wake Forest 24-5 1,473 7 4 UNC 24-5 1,347 4 5 Kansas 23-5 1,344 2 6 Arkansas 27-8 1,322 5 7 UMass 26-4 1,252 8 8 UConn 25-4 1,123 6 9 Villanova 25-7 1,095 13 10 Maryland 24-7 986 10 11 Mich. St. 22-5 972 9 12 Purdue 22-4 929 14 13 Virginia 22-8 854 11 14 Okla. St. 23-9 736 19 15 Arizona 22-5 700 12 16 Arizona St. 22-8 638 18 17 Oklahoma 23-8 497 16 18 Miss. St. 20-7 492 15 19 Utah 27-5 466 22 20 Alabama 22-9 306 20 21 W. Ky. 26-3 248 23 21 Gtown 19-9 220 24 23 Missouri 19-9 202 17 24 Iowa St. 22-10 194 — 25 Syracuse 19-9 103 21 Other receiving votes: Oregon 99, Texas 75, Stanford 44, Tulsa 42, Cincinnati 36, Memphis 32, Indiana 22, Florida 16, Penn 12. The Associated Press The most startling poll news of the season had to be that Duke's run of 143 consecutive polls came to end, a streak that began early in the 1986-87 season. 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