NCAA Basketball Rankings 2015: Complete Week 14 College AP Poll Released

After a one-week hiatus, Kentucky and Virginia are back in their deserved spots atop the college basketball world.   

The Cavaliers, who dropped to No. 3 after suffering their first loss last week, are back in the second spot after wins over two top-15 teams in North Carolina and Louisville. Kentucky continued its attempt at a wire-to-wire No. 1 ranking with victories over Georgia and Florida, bringing the Wildcats to 23-0. Gonzaga, which dropped one spot to No. 3, Duke and Wisconsin round out the top five.     

Here is a look at how the entire Associated Press Top 25 rankings played out:

Ranking	Team
1	Kentucky
2	Virginia
3	Gonzaga
4	Duke
5	Wisconsin
6	Villanova
7	Arizona
8	Kansas
9	Louisville
10	Notre Dame
11	Utah
12	North Carolina
13	Northern Iowa
14	Iowa State
15	Wichita State
16	Baylor
17	Oklahoma
18	Butler
19	Maryland
20	VCU
21	West Virginia
21	Oklahoma State
23	Ohio State
24	Arkansas
25	SMU

Looking past the nation's five best teams, it was a brutal week to be ranked across college basketball. Four of the five teams ranked No. 6-10 last week lost at least one game, two of which were losses against unranked opponents.

Arizona drops one spot to No. 7 after allowing rival Arizona State to storm the court in Tempe. The Sun Devils shot 50 percent and got to the free-throw line 28 times while ramping up the pressure on Arizona's top-notch defense. Four players scored in double figures, including an 18-point outburst from Bo Barnes off the bench.

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"We did not get the job done on the defensive end, really in any way," Arizona coach Sean Miller told reporters. "Around the basket we had no rim protector, we had no physicality and it seemed a little too easy."

Hanging in the top five in defensive efficiency for most of the season, the Wildcats now sit seventh, per Ken Pomeroy. They have only one game remaining against a Top 25 opponent during the regular season, though, so there should be plenty of opportunities for Miller to right the ship.

Kansas' issue over the weekend came on the other end of the floor. The Jayhawks scored just 21 points in the second half of their 67-62 loss to Oklahoma State, blowing an 11-point halftime lead and snapping a five-game winning streak.

Oklahoma State, which defeated Texas in overtime last Wednesday, managed to eke out a win despite its bench producing only four points. LeBryan Nash, who led all scorers with 18 points, was one of four Cowboys starters in double figures.

"We just became more aggressive, our whole mentality," Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford told reporters. "I think it was more about us than them. We did make them turn it over a bit more, we did speed them up a little bit, but it got us being aggressive, it got us in attack mode."

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The transgressions from Notre Dame and Louisville were much more minor. The Irish looked awful in their 90-60 loss to Duke, but it came less than two weeks after they'd beaten the same Blue Devils squad. Even as losers of two of their last three games, it is hard to be too worried when the nation's 158th-ranked defense allows the fourth-best offense to go off. Notre Dame remains exactly what we thought it was.

Louisville played perhaps the single worst half of offensive basketball we'll see in this calendar year against Virginia, making four field goals as it went into the break down 24-13. Then the Cardinals played a stellar enough second half to nearly pull off an upset in Charlottesville. Rick Pitino has his work cut out offensively come March, but his starting lineup can play with any five in the country.

Overall, 12 of the AP's Top 25 teams dropped at least one game over the last seven days. Two of them, West Virginia and Georgetown, went as far as to lose both of their games and see their rankings tumble as as result.

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Entering the week at No. 15, the Mountaineers are sitting at No. 21 following double-digit losses to Oklahoma and Baylor. Bob Huggins' team allowed a shaky Oklahoma offense to shoot 61.4 percent in a 71-52 loss in Norman and compounded its problems by allowing Baylor to knock down nearly 55 percent of its shots in Morgantown.

For their part, the Mountaineers shot well under 40 percent in both contests and are now the worst offense among Ken Pomeroy's top 20 teams.

"I don't know what it is," Huggins told reporters. "It's like your kids. You don't want your kids to make the same mistakes you did. That's how all parents are. It worries me, because I don't think our effort is what it was. We're not doing what we're supposed to do."

Georgetown completed its descent out of the Top 25 with losses to Providence and Villanova. The Hoyas have fallen in three of their last four games after a seemingly season-altering four-game winning streak that included a 20-point thrashing of those same Wildcats.

Jay Wright and Co. returned the favor Saturday, holding Georgetown to 1-of-17 from beyond the arc while draining 12 threes of their own in a 69-53 triumph.

“It was almost the reverse,” Georgetown coach John Thompson III told reporters. “They just jumped out on us like we jumped out on them, and against good teams you can’t get down that big and fight back.”

Georgetown and Texas are the only teams to fall out of the rankings for Week 14. The Longhorns had dropped four straight games before squeaking past Kansas State on Saturday.

Taking their place are No. 21 Oklahoma State and No. 24 Arkansas. The Razorbacks have gotten off to a 7-3 start in SEC play and could move to 12-3 before their lone matchup against Kentucky on Feb. 28. 

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