AP College Basketball Poll 2016: Complete Week 19 Rankings Released

We know how the NCAA tournament committee ranked the nation's best teams. On Monday, the Associated Press offered its final regular-season opinion.

Suffice it to say there are some differences.  

Agreement reigns supreme when it comes to No. 1 Kansas, but the concurrence stops there. Michigan State, one day after shockingly being given a No. 2 seed, held strong as the second-ranked team in the country. The Spartans are followed by ACC champion North Carolina, Virginia and Oregon. 

Here is a look at the entire rankings:

Ranking	Team
1	Kansas
2	Michigan State
3	North Carolina
4	Virginia
5	Oregon
6	Villanova
7	Oklahoma
8	West Virginia
9	Xavier
10	Miami
10	Kentucky
12	Purdue
13	Utah
14	Indiana
15	Texas A&M
16	Louisville
17	Arizona
18	Maryland
19	Duke
20	Seton Hall
21	Baylor
22	Iowa State
23	California
24	SMU
25	Iowa

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Interestingly, a couple of steps behind its fellow No. 1 seeds is Oregon. The Pac-12 champion sits at No. 5 after rampaging its way to a 31-point win over Utah in the conference title game. Four of the Ducks' starters were in double figures, led by freshman Tyler Dorsey with 23 points. They've gone on an eight-game winning streak since back-to-back losses to Cal and Stanford.

"I wouldn't want to play them. I know that," Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said of Oregon, per ESPN.com.

Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports made an interesting categorization of the West Region:

Because of the nature of the conference tournaments, not much else changed in terms of the rankings. Six of the nation's top 10 teams lost, but that's understandable. Given how concentrated the elite teams were to a few conferences, those teams were bound to go down once it came time for head-to-head matchups.

In fact, the conference tournaments arguably made the AP voters feel smart about their rankings.

Kansas and Michigan State, the two best teams by AP votes, won their conference tournaments. Oregon, the best team in the Pac-12, won its conference. Kentucky, the top-ranked SEC squad, defeated Texas A&M...the second-ranked SEC team. The ACC came down to a matchup of North Carolina and Virginia—which, you guessed it, were the top two ranked teams.

The only truly strange outcome came from Indiana, which dropped a three-point game to Michigan. The Hoosiers suffered massively from that defeat, as they wound up falling all the way to a No. 5 seed. It was a seemingly unfair dip given they won the Big Ten by a solid two games during the regular season. The Crimson Quarry was understandably perturbed: 

Per Pete DiPrimio of the News-Sentinel, Indiana coach Tom Crean had this to say on the matter:

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I know we were a No. 1 seed after we won (the Big Ten in 2013). I know Michigan was a No. 2 seed after they won it. I know Wisconsin was a No. 1 seed after they won it.

I don't have much more to add other than that. I saw (Kentucky coach) John Calipari's game with ESPN. He said you've got to go play the games. He's exactly right, so here we go.

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From an overall perspective, this was one of the least eventful weeks for Top 25 teams. The regular season that was filled with eye-opening upsets was nowhere to be found. Indiana, Duke and Iowa were the only three teams to lose against unranked opponents over the last seven days.

For the Hawkeyes, it ended an absolutely miserable finish to the season. Once ranked inside the Top Five, the team spiraled all the way to a No. 7 seed. Duke, wildly inconsistent all season, is a No. 4 seed—the first time since 2007 the Blue Devils have not been a top-three seed.

It makes for some interesting analysis. After months of intrigue and unpredictability, it's possible we're reaching a static point. Most of the nation's elite teams seem to be peaking now. There is no Kentucky of 2014-15, a team that blasted its way through largely untested before running out of steam. Even Kansas has a 19-point loss to Oklahoma State on its resume.

Either that or conference championship week was just the calm before the storm. As an outside observer, we should all be hoping for the latter. But don't be surprised if, come Saturday morning, there is a lot more chalk on NCAA tournament boards than anyone would have expected a few weeks ago. 

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