Auburn and Alabama enter a critical SEC basketball week as top 15 teams, with both facing the No. 4 Tennessee Vols.
Auburn moved up three spots to No. 11 after its 21-point road win at Georgia. Alabama dropped a spot to No. 14 after losing by 20 to Kentucky in Rupp Arena.
Both teams face tough stretches with only a handful games left in the regular season.
Tennessee pushed to its highest ranking of the season Monday at No. 4. The Volunteers will be tested this week to stay there. The Vols first host No. 11 Auburn on Wednesday then visit No. 14 Alabama on Saturday.
That represents two of the three matchups of ranked teams in the Southeastern Conference, which had a national-best six teams in the poll. The other is No. 24 Florida’s visit to No. 18 South Carolina on Saturday.
See the full AP Top 25 below.
| RK |
TEAM
|
REC | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 (53) |
24-3 | 1540 | |
| 2 |
 (4) |
25-3 | 1460 | |
| 3 |
 (5) |
25-3 | 1459 | |
| 4 |
 |
21-6 | 1338 | |
| 5 |
 |
21-6 | 1243 | |
| 6 |
 |
21-6 | 1188 | |
| 7 |
 |
21-6 | 1156 | |
| 8 |
 |
21-6 | 1155 | |
| 9 |
 |
21-6 | 1130 | |
| 10 |
 |
21-6 | 976 | |
| 11 |
 |
21-6 | 862 | |
| 12 |
 |
20-8 | 738 | |
| 13 |
 |
20-7 | 726 | |
| 14 |
 |
19-8 | 695 | |
| 15 |
 |
19-8 | 689 | |
| 16 |
 |
19-8 | 649 | |
| 17 |
 |
23-6 | 646 | |
| 18 |
 |
22-5 | 471 | |
| 19 |
 |
21-7 | 361 | |
| 20 |
 |
21-7 | 305 | |
| 21 |
 |
21-5 | 261 |
5
|
| 22 |
 |
22-5 | 207 | |
| 23 |
 |
22-6 | 184 | |
| 24 |
 |
19-8 | 140 | |
| 25 |
 |
21-5 | 127 |
Others receiving votes: BYU 92, Texas Tech 65, TCU 45, Clemson 45, Wake Forest 44, Wisconsin 42, Nevada 25, Colorado State 20, Arizona State 17, New Mexico 10, Florida Atlantic 8, Oklahoma 7, Nebraska 7, Mississippi State 5, Washington 4, Appalachian State 3, McNeese 1, Loyola Chicago 1, Indiana State 1, Northwestern 1, Boise State 1
Dropped from rankings: Colorado State 22, Texas Tech 23, BYU 25