The men’s and women’s basketball teams finished off historic seasons ranked in the top 10 in the final ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ polls. The men, fresh off a 35-3 season that resulted in an Elite Eight appearance, checked in at No. 5 in the final rankings. It’s the men’s highest finish in the poll since the 2002-03 season when UK finished No. 4.Meanwhile, the women, after a record-setting 28-8 year that also ended in the Elite Eight, finished in a tie at No. 9, the highest finish to a season in school history.The two teams combined to average a final ranking of No. 7 in the final ESPN/USA Today polls. Only Duke, which ranked No. 1 in the men and No. 5 in the women, had a higher average (averaged No. 3 ranking).

The Associated Press does not release a final poll after the NCAA Tournament.Men1 Duke (31)  33-5 775 2 Butler 32-4 739 3 West Virginia 31-6 696 4 Michigan State 28-8 654 5 Kentucky 35-3 650 6 Kansas 33-3 604 7 Kansas State 29-8 573 8 Syracuse 30-5 554 9 Tennessee 28-9 494 10 Baylor 28-8 487 11 Ohio State 29-8 483 12 Purdue 29-6 448 13 Northern Iowa 30-5 344 14 Xavier 26-9 271 15 Villanova 25-8 267 16 New Mexico 30-5 229 17 Cornell 29-5 225 18 Maryland 24-9 201 19 Saint Mary’s 28-6 198 20 Pittsburgh 25-9 182 21 Washington 26-10 163 22 Brigham Young 30-6 161 23 Gonzaga 27-7 141 24 Wisconsin 24-9 140 25 Texas A&M 24-10 136 Women 1. Connecticut (31)  39-0 775   2. Stanford 36-2 744   3. Oklahoma 27-11 678   4. Baylor 27-10 676   5. Xavier 30-4 652   6. Duke 30-6 591   7. Nebraska 32-2 550   8. Tennessee 32-3 538   9. Kentucky 28-8 537   9. Florida State 29-6 537  11. Notre Dame 29-6 500  12. Gonzaga 29-5 397  13. Iowa State 25-8 357  14. Texas A&M 26-8 336  15. Ohio State 31-5 306  16. West Virginia 29-6 287  17. Georgetown 26-7 218  18. St. John’s 25-7 215  19. Georgia 25-9 202  20. San Diego State 23-11 174  21. Mississippi State 21-13 170  22. Oklahoma State 24-11 121  23. UCLA 25-9 106  24. Vanderbilt 23-11 74  25. LSU 21-10 53  25. Texas 22-11 53