Kentucky remained stationary at No. 5 in the latest USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches’ Poll despite previous No. 4 North Carolina losing last week.

The Cats remained behind first-place Kansas, Michigan State, Texas and new No. 4 Villanova. The Villanova Wildcats leaped over the Cats from sixth place.

Kansas received 28 of the 31 first-place votes. Syracuse was the biggest mover of the week after beating UNC, jumping all the way from No. 24 to No. 9.

Update: Cats stay at No. 5 in the Associated Press Poll as well

  Rank     School (record)                      Points                     Last week        Votes

  1.           Kansas (3-0)                           772                           1                        28

  2.           Michigan State (4-0)               734                           2                          2

  3.           Texas (2-0)                             698                           3                          0

  4.           Villanova (5-0)                       655                           6                          0

  5.           Kentucky (4-0)                       642                           5                          0

  6.           Purdue (3-0)                           588                           7                          0

  7.           Duke (4-0)                              587                           8                          1

  8.           West Virginia (1-0)                 532                           9                          0

  9.           Syracuse (4-0)                        481                           24                        0

  10.         Butler (3-0)                             475                           10                        0

  11.         Tennessee (4-0)                      464                           11                        0

  12.         North Carolina (4-1)               447                           4                          0

  13.         Connecticut (3-0)                    405                           13                        0

  14.         Washington (4-0)                    383                           14                        0

  15.         Michigan (2-0)                        339                           16                        0

  16. (tie) Minnesota (3-0)                      233                           18                        0

  16. (tie) Louisville (3-0)                       233                           22                        0

  18.         Ohio State (3-1)                      219                           15                        0

  19. (tie) Clemson (3-0)                         205                           23                        0

  19. (tie) Georgetown (3-0)                   205                           20                        0

  21.         Illinois (3-0)                            131                           25                        0

  22.         Maryland (3-0)                         99                           not ranked            0

  23.         California (2-2)                         71                           12                        0

  24.         Vanderbilt (2-0)                        67                           not ranked            0

  25.         Georgia Tech (3-1)                   56                           19                        0

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