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Associated Press
Virginia had the hard task of playing 2 ranked teams portion grieving a calamity that shook the Cavaliers and the remainder of their campus.
Playing a week aft 3 shot players were changeable to decease connected a bus, Virginia won the Continental Tire Main Event successful Las Vegas implicit No. 16 Illinois aft taking down No. 7 Baylor. The wins vaulted the Cavaliers from No. 16 to 5th successful The Associated Press Top 25 released Monday.
"It feels large successful the moment, but much truthful now, we cognize what genuinely matters," Virginia manager Tony Bennett said. "When you person a momentary solemnisation similar this, it enables you to bask it and it seems to matter, but successful the large picture, it doesn't."
A slate of marquee games successful the 2nd afloat week of the assemblage hoops play led to tumult successful the AP Top 25.
North Carolina remained atop the poll, receiving 47 first-place votes from a 63-person media panel. Houston moved up a spot to No. 2 and had 9 first-place votes. No. 3 Kansas had 1 first-place vote, No. 4 Texas received 5 and Virginia one.
The Cavaliers (4-0) had the week's biggest jump, climbing to its highest ranking since reaching No. 4 successful 2020-21.
Virginia opted to cancel its crippled against Northern Iowa past week aft Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D'Sean Perry were fatally changeable aft a tract travel to Washington.
The Cavaliers wore sweatshirts honoring the victims during warm-ups earlier playing Baylor and pulled distant successful the 2nd fractional for an 86-79 win. The Cavaliers utilized different second-half tally to bushed Illinois 70-61, claiming a therapeutic rubric to instrumentality backmost with them to Charlottesville.
"Just for the community, I felt similar they needed that," Virginia defender and tourney MVP Reece Beekman said.
SPARTY RISING
Michigan State was unranked successful the AP preseason canvass successful consecutive seasons for the archetypal clip since 1996-97 aft losing its apical 3 scorers from a twelvemonth ago.
With a brutal aboriginal schedule, the Spartans figured to request immoderate clip to summation their footing. Tom Izzo has them moving astatine an accelerated pace. Michigan State mislaid by 1 to Gonzaga connected an craft carrier, knocked disconnected Kentucky successful treble overtime and survived a precocious comeback bid to bushed Villanova.
The coagulated showing successful a hard agelong moved Michigan State into this week's canvass astatine No. 12.
"It's everything that we thought it would be," Michigan State defender A.J. Hoggard said. "This is what we signed up for, this is what we wanted."
HOT HOUSTON
Houston opened the play astatine No. 3, its highest preseason ranking since 1983. The Cougars deed different precocious people since the Phi Slama Jama era, moving up a spot to No. 2 this week.
Houston opened the play with 4 consecutive blowouts and made a connection successful its archetypal large trial of the season, winning 66-56 astatine Oregon connected Sunday night.
The Cougars are holding teams to 46 points per crippled and person 4 players scoring successful treble figures, led by preseason All-American Marcus Sasser's 16.8 points per game.
RISING/FALLING
Virginia had the week's biggest leap wrong the poll, followed by No. 4 Texas' seven-spot ascent aft manhandling Gonzaga.
No. 15 Kentucky and No. 19 UCLA had the biggest drops, losing 11 places. The Wildcats mislaid to Michigan State and followed a triumph implicit South Carolina State with a 16-point nonaccomplishment to Gonzaga. The Bruins mislaid to Illinois and Baylor successful Las Vegas.
IN AND OUT
No. 23 Maryland is ranked for the archetypal clip this play aft picking up 3 wins past week, including 88-70 implicit Miami to triumph the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off.
Purdue makes its AP Top 25 debut this play astatine No. 24 pursuing a 75-70 triumph implicit Marquette.
No. 25 Iowa besides is ranked for the archetypal clip successful 2022-23 connected the heels of its 16-point triumph implicit Seton Hall.
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