AP College Basketball Poll 2015: Complete Week 11 Rankings Released

After the beginning of intraconference games sent the Top 25 into near-constant flux, a state of inertia has finally begun washing over the college basketball landscape.       

Kentucky and Virginia, the nation's lone remaining unbeatens, continue to hold their deserved perch as the nation's top two teams. As they did last week, Duke, Gonzaga and Villanova finish out the remainder of the Top Five—just in a slightly different order. The Blue Devils' loss to Miami drops them down to No. 5, while the Zags ascend to No. 3 and the Wildcats to No. 4.

Here is a look at how the remainder of The Associated Press poll played out:

Ranking	Team
1	Kentucky (63)
2	Virginia (2)
3	Gonzaga
4	Villanova
5	Duke
6	Wisconsin
7	Arizona
8	Notre Dame
9	Iowa State
10	Louisville
11	Kansas
12	Utah
13	Maryland
14	Wichita State
15	North Carolina
16	VCU
17	Texas
18	West Virginia
19	Oklahoma
20	Northern Iowa
21	Baylor
22	Dayton
23	Indiana
24	Seton Hall
25	Iowa

Most of the changes near the top were small. Duke looked like it was headed for a free-fall Tuesday night, playing miserable defense in a 90-74 loss to Miami. The Blue Devils at that point had dropped two of their first four ACC games, including back-to-back contests for the first time since 2009. By Saturday they'd made a key switch to a zone defense, holding Louisville to 29.5 percent shooting on its home floor en route to a 63-52 triumph.

"I thought our offense was affecting our defense and we needed to change our point of pick up—whether it be man or zone—and put it at the top of the key," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski told reporters. "Try not to let people get points in the paint against us. Our guys did a good job of that."

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Duke won't be able to continue playing zone in every contest, but it's a good wrinkle that may help mitigate its defensive struggles. Ken Pomeroy's advanced metrics currently rank the Blue Devils 51st nationally on the defensive end, worse than all but two teams (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) in his top 20. Games against Pittsburgh and St. John's this week should help keep the winning ways going before a back-to-back gauntlet of road contests in South Bend and Charlottesville.

Arizona was among the other power players earning a key victory this week, with its 69-51 triumph over Utah sending a clear message about the Pac-12 hierarchy. Stanley Johnson, T.J. McConnell and Brandon Ashley each scored in double figures while holding Utah to only 16 made field goals. The Utes are now 1-3 against Top 25 opponents, with their only victory being a one-point win over Wichita State.

"Maybe what we recognized today is a team like that always brings out the best in us," Arizona head coach Sean Miller told reporters. "Which is always a great sign."

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Perhaps the most impressive double-digit beatdown of a Top 25 opponent, though, came from Texas. The Longhorns, who'd dropped two straight in embarrassing fashion before hosting West Virginia, flipped the script in their 77-50 romp. Cameron Ridley recaptured his groove with a 19-point outing, Miles Turner physically overpowered the Mountaineer bigs en route to a 16-point game and the Texas defense held West Virginia to 24.1 percent shooting.   

"They played the game the way they wanted to play it," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins told reporters. "They imposed their will on us and we didn't respond to it very well."  

If Texas has actually sorted itself out, it's done so at a perfect time. The Longhorns host Kansas on Saturday in the first of what could be four straight games against ranked opponents. Given the very reasonable concerns about their tournament status after the losses to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, we should see what Texas is really made of in the coming weeks.

The Big 12 gauntlet is already starting to catch up to Kansas, which dropped an 86-81 thriller to Iowa State over the weekend. Iowa State shot 50 percent and dictated the game's pacing throughout, taking advantage of defensive miscommunication from Kansas to score 50 points in the second half. All five Cyclones starters scored in double figures and sixth man Jameel McKee added 11 off the bench.

Fred Hoiberg's team has now played five straight games decided by five or fewer points. One of those games, a 74-73 loss to Baylor last Wednesday, halts the Cyclones' upward trajectory a bit. They're 3-2 overall in those contests, with two of the wins coming against ranked opponents.

The race for the Big 12 championship is arguably the country's most intriguing. The conference features six ranked teams and six teams within one game of another in the loss column. With no truly elite teams, it feels like anyone can go down in a moment's notice. Perhaps only the ACC can boast such competitiveness on a nightly basis.

For the last seven days, though, it's mostly been about who can stay put. Notre Dame was the week's biggest riser among Top 25 teams at just four spots. Utah matched that number in the opposite direction for Week 11's biggest decline.

Moving into the Top 25 are Dayton, Indiana and Iowa. They're taking the place of Wyoming, Oklahoma State and Arkansas. 

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