For the second straight week, a team ahead of Kentucky was upset and dropped from the top-five ranks. That meant a move up for the Wildcats in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Top 25 Poll.

With Michigan State’s loss earlier in the week and a Cancun Challenge championship trophy in hand, the Cats moved up to No. 4 in this week’s ESPN/USA Today poll.

Kansas remained No. 1 (30 of 31 first-place votes) in the poll for the third straight week, followed by Texas and Villanova, respectively.

The Cats stayed put in the latest AP poll at No. 5. Despite the MSU loss, Purdue leapfrogged over the Cats to No. 4. Kansas remained at No. 1 in the AP as well (63 of 65 first-place votes), followed by Texas, Villanova and Purdue, in that order.

Links will take you to the entire top 25.

Wall earns SEC honors again: For the second week in a row, freshman John Wall was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week.

Wall averaged 19.0 points, 5.5 assists and 4.0 rebounds in leading UK to the Cancun Challenge championship last week. The first-year start was named the tournament MVP after scoring a career-high 23 points in the Cats’ overtime victory over Stanford in the finals.

The early season honors and awards continue to accumulate for UK. Just last week Wall was named the ESPN.com National Player of the Week. The Cats have also swept the Freshman Player of the Week honors the first three weeks of the season. Freshman guard Eric Bledsoe earned the honor the first week, followed by Wall the following two.