With Arkansas No. 1 for the third straight week, the top nine teams in the college basketball poll held.
There were changes at the bottom, as Marquette and Western Kentucky joined the Top 25 for the first time this season, replacing Vanderbilt and LSU.Arkansas (6-0) received 50 first-place votes and 1,604 points from the national media panel.
North Carolina (8-1) had nine first-place votes and 1,526 points and was followed by Duke (5-0), Temple (4-0), and Kentucky.
Kansas, Michigan, Massachusetts and UCLA held sixth through ninth. The new top 10 team was Purdue (8-0), which moved up one spot.
Louisville led the second 10, followed by Indiana, Arizona, Georgia Tech, Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Boston College, Illinois and Cincinnati.
The final five were Syracuse, Oklahoma State, George Washington, Marquette and Western Kentucky.