This week's top 45

Duke has pretty much finished off Virginia, which leads to this top 45.

Yes, Maryland fans, you should be pleased. Well, if I still had an AP vote, you would be.

As for the top spot, Kansas has done enough over the course of the season to warrant holding onto No. 1 even after losing at Oklahoma State. The Pokes, meanwhile, re-emerge as a top-25 team after that victory over the Jayhawks.

Here goes:

(UPDATED: 9:56 p.m. to actually include Oklahoma State at No. 23. The original version left out the Cowboys).

1. Kansas (27-2)
2. Syracuse (27-2)
3. Kentucky (27-2)
4. Duke (25-4)
5. Kansas State (24-4)
6. Purdue (24-4)
7. Ohio State (23-7)
8. Villanova (23-5)
9. New Mexico (27-3)
10. West Virginia (22-6)
11. Michigan State (22-7)
12. Vanderbilt (22-6)
13. Tennessee (21-7)
14. Temple (24-5)
15. Baylor (22-6)
16. Georgetown (19-8)
17. Pittsburgh (22-7)
18. Maryland (21-7)
19. Butler (26-4)
20. Xavier (21-7)
21. Texas A&M (20-8)
22. Texas (22-7)
23. Oklahoma State (20-8)
24. Brigham Young (26-4)
25. Wisconsin (21-7)

26. Richmond (22-7)
27. Gonzaga (24-5)
28. Clemson (20-8)
29. Marquette (19-9)
30. Georgia Tech (19-9)
31. Missouri (21-8)
32. Florida State (20-8)
33. Utah State (23-6)
34. Virginia Tech (21-7)
35. Wake Forest (18-8)
36. UTEP (22-5)
37. UNLV (22-7)
38. Louisville (19-10)
39. Northern Iowa (25-4)
40. Florida (20-9)
41. Cornell (25-4)
42. Old Dominion (23-8)
43. Saint Mary’s (24-5)
44. UAB (23-5)
45. Rhode Island (20-7)

Comments

[Jeremy]

Am I missing something? I don't see OK St on this list.

[D1scourse]

No, youre not. I just messed up inadvertently, the proof being that I bothered to say Okie State resurfaced.

Im in the process of fixing it, but the Pokes will be No. 23 when it all sorts itself out in this entry.