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NCAA Men’s Basketball Rankings (Dec. 14)

Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks continue to hold onto the #1 ranking in the AP Division I Top 25.  Climbing a spot this week are Coach John Calipari and his Kentucky Wildcats and Purdue (Matt Painter)  Jim Boeheim’s Syracuse jumped 2 spots to #5 (with 2 first place votes).

The Top 25 for Dec. 14, 2009 includes:

1. Kansas (Coached by Bill Self)
2. Texas
3. Kentucky  (Coached by John Calipari)
4. Purdue (Coached by Matt Painter)
5. Syracuse (Coached by Jim Boeheim)
6. West Virginia (Coached by Bob Huggins)
7. Duke (Coached by Mike Krzyzewski)
8. Villanova (Coached by Jay Wright)
9. Tennessee (Coached by Bruce Pearl)
10. North Carolina (Coached by Roy Williams)
11. Georgetown
12. Michigan State (Coached by Tom Izzo)
13. Florida (Coached by Billy Donovan)
14. Connecticut (Coached by Jim Calhoun)
15. Gonzaga (Coached by Mark Few)
16. Texas Tech
17. Kansas State (Coached by Frank Martin)
18. Ohio State
19. New Mexico – (Coached by Steve Alford)
20. Mississippi (Coached by Andy Kennedy)
21. Butler (Coached by Brad Stevens)
22. Georgia Tech (Coached by Paul Hewitt)
23. Texas A&M
24. Washington (Coached by Lorenzo Romar)
25. Cincinnati