AP poll breakdown: Andy Katz Q&A, reactions to Feb. 5 college basketball rankings

AP poll breakdown: Andy Katz Q&A, reactions to Feb. 5 college basketball rankings

And welcome everyone to our AP poll top 25 reaction I’m Andy Katz here on Bleacher Report as well as our being repurposed on nca.com and March Madness men’s basketball uh let’s get to the AP Top 25 Poll we will then look at my power 36 in comparison my player team of

The week games to watch and stock up stock down before we get to your questions all right first off let’s look at the poll not any issues with one two and three Yukon Purdue keep winning Purdue got challenged big time uh I was there for that game last Wednesday against

Northwestern overtime but they were able to survive that and then they had a great win at Wisconsin on Sunday Yukon wins on the road wins at home they’re just getting back to 100% they are dominant these are the two best teams in the country then we’ve got a little bit

Of a rotation behind them um at this present juncture you’ve got Carolina Kansas Houston Tennessee Marquette Arizona Duke and Illinois all of these teams have warts all of them have lost one won- one uh look at Carolina L A Georgia Tech beat Duke Kansas previous week got beat by Iowa

State this past week beat Oklahoma State beat Houston Houston I would have dropped a little more because they got absolutely obliterated Tennessee loses at home to South Carolina goes on the road and beats Kentucky Marquette they won their Road games Arizona escaped uh Sunday night against Stanford pulled

Away uh Duke won at GE Virginia Tech lost at Carolina Illinois uh beat Nebraska in overtime on Sunday Wisconsin rough week lose a lead at Nebraska they lose that game then not able to be Purdue at home which is obviously understand animal Auburn good bounce back by winning adle Miss Baylor

Iowa State uh crazy game in wakeo shot as Baylor coach Scott drew gets teed up and ejected Iowa state has a buzzer beater uh and then it’s waved off South Carolina great to see the Gamecocks here at 15 uh the fact that they won at Tennessee and at Georgia they’ve got one

Sec loss that was to Alabama so a little surprising they’re behind excuse me they’re in front of Alabama Alabama’s in first in the SEC um actually I’m sorry they have two SEC losses they lost to Georgia the first time Alabama and their other loss overall is to Clemson there’s

Kentucky you know rough law rough week for them losing at home to Florida and then Tennessee glad to see Dayton back in kraton Florida Atlantic BYU Utah State Texas Tech San dieo State and New Mexico so the Lobos which lost to Boise State at home stay at 25 um interesting so let’s go

In comparison to uh my power 36 there we go um so as you see I have South Carolina in the top 10 uh behind Alabama right now South Carolina and Alabama are the two best teams in the SEC with Tennessee uh right ahead of them now you

Could argue okay how is Tennessee behind them in the standings but ahead of of them in the rankings it’s a good question South Carolina did beat Tennessee so it’s a fair uh assessment but um I just think Tennessee is obviously a better basketball team I thought what they did at Kentucky was

Impressive um if you want to come at me that I have them behind that’s a fair comment but I think they’re all interchangeable right now in the SEC I did drop Houston I did drop Duke um Arizona’s back playing some of their best basketball so that’s why I have

Them up high let’s go to uh 13 through 24 St Mary’s you did not see St Mary’s in the top 25 St Mary’s is undefeated in the WCC they won it g zaga late Saturday night um they deserve to be in the top 25 how about Virginia Virginia now second in the

ACC they’re on a quite a run um you know they’re back in the picture Baylor Iowa State Indiana State beat Drake Robbie aala remember him specs you’re going to see a lot of him in the N tournament there’s Boise State which right now is tied with Utah

State for the top spot in the Mountain West Conference BYU Dayton let’s go to 25 through 36 Butler Butler is in position right now to be in the NBL tournament we’re gonna have a bracket on Tuesday we’ll see how we play it out on Monday if they get

In great roadwin at kraton they’ve already won at Marat um there you see kraton so Butler THM doing out standing job putting them in position to potentially get a bid New Mexico and Nebraska had rough weeks sort of Northwestern but they’re all right there I still think they’re

Really good basketball teams all of them then you got this the sort of slew of Big 12 teams in Texas Texas Tech TCU Michigan State I think is back in there San State and Washington state Washington State now second place tied with Oregon in the Pack 12 so Kyle Smith has done an

Unbelievable job they got crushed in the transfer portal and now look at them they already beat Arizona they’re in position to potentially get a bid all right so now are March Madness National player of the week Tyler kak from Marquette senior guard uh preseason first team All-American he is now definitely back

In play for one of those spots um absolutely Sensational this past week 32 points nine assists three Steals and two turnovers in Road wi at V Villanova then 17 points eight assists and just one turnover in a road win at Georgetown so Marquette they’re going to go to

Yukon February 17th right back in there uh with kic as one of the two best teams in the Big East national team of the week well I already mentioned them South Carolina Lamont Paris has done an outstanding job in year two I believe uh beat Tennessee and beat Georgia as I

Said their other Lo their losses were Georgia earlier Alabama and um Clemson they’re now tied in the Lost col the SEC with Tennessee and Auburn and uh he’s just done a great job of turning this program around so great week for the Gamecocks all right let’s look at the

Games to watch this week and it was hard to only choose 10 starting Monday night that’s tonight Kansas at K State uh the wild cats have been reeling a little bit um they need this one you didn’t see K State in my power 36 because they’ve been

Reeling brand is going to be rocking so it would behoove the Wildcats to get this one over KU Alabama at Auburn that’s on Wednesday uh Alabama already beat Auburn the first time uh you know if Auburn wants to win the SEC they need to get a split with the tide Illinois at Michigan

State um they played once already in Champagne Michigan State played well Illinois got the win uh they’re both playing really well right now it’s be a great guard matchups difference GNA be I think Coleman Hawkins if Michigan State can’t figure out a way to guard Hawkins that’s going to be a

Problem Bale at Kansas on Saturday uh it’s quite a week for the j-hawks K State Road Baylor home question is can Baylor match hunter Dickinson um guard play I think could be a wash Saturday Gonzaga at Kentucky so the zags are in a position where they got to

Win the WCC tournament if they’re going to get in unless they could get this quad one opportunity if they do that then I think we can make an argument that they could be in position to get a bid isn’t a large but they’re two back at same Maries they desperately need this

Game uh last year they beat Kentucky in Spokane not at the kennel but in the Spokane Arena Kentucky um you know they’re going to need this one obviously because they need a reset at rup after losing two home games uh Boise State at Utah State this is now a matchup for first

Place in the mount West on Saturday uh if it all plays out prior to that so the Broncos under Leon rice he’s got them back in contention Danny sprinkle obviously Utah State’s had a great year Max rice went off against New Mexico Big Time showdown in Logan Utah Tennessee at Texas A&M on

Saturday so the agies have had kind of a weird year but they’ve got a resume that has home wins over Kentucky Florida and the that road win over Ohio State which doesn’t mean as much but it was a true Road R win so now

If the aies can beat the vs at home that would certainly help them even more Nebraska at Northwestern on Wednesday uh these are two teams that are like mirror images Nebraska beat Northwest in the first time and um they’re both coming off just really frustrating weeks Northwestern lost two overtime games

Nebraska lost an overtime game on Sunday so all on the road for all three of those games um in this instance I think Northwestern needs this more but I think they’re gonna be fine still Washington State at Oregon on Saturday uh Oregon is sliding lost UCLA

If Washington State can get this win in Eugene they will really be in position to be the second team out of the Pack 12 and then a nice Bubblicious game Providence at Butler as I mentioned Butler’s in my power 36 Providence lost to Villanova on Sunday so they kind of need it Butler

Keeps winning to put themselves in position it’s a really intriguing game all right so here is my first February version of stock up and stock down stock up Alabama first in the SEC South Carolina beat Kentucky and Tennessee already in the SEC and they’re in second place tied for

Second St Mary’s alone a top the WCC win at Gonzaga Washington State in second of the Pack 12 already have win over Arizona Virginia tied for second in the ACC so they are reemerging and they going back to St Mary’s that went over Gonzaga in Spokane I think will have tremendous shelf

Life Boise State tied for first in the mount West Conference they’ve already won in New Mexico and Butler one kraton in position for potential bid now stock down Indiana they lost at home to Penn State they have a mountain to climb to try to get in Ohio State they’ve lost four in a

Row Oregon has lost four or five Memphis has lost four or five Clemson has lost three of five real tough loss at Duke lost at home of Virginia Colorado lost two in a row to drop to six and five in the Pack 12 and Mississippi State they’ve lost three of four so there’s

Your stock up your stock down in the first week of February all right so now let’s go to some of your questions uh Deon Ford wants to know why is FL Atlantic still at number 20 well they’re now in a situation where they’re just winning games they’re winning games

In the American and they’re winning it in a variety of ways in the 60s or scoring 100 so if feel like they’re playing the way we expected early in the season Cooper favy Tennessee is hilarious at four and your power 36 that seems too high did you watch the game against

Kentucky the other thing is every one of these teams is flawed really after the top two if you want to move teams around in that top 10 I’m fine with that because all of them whenn one lose one win one lose one they’re all flawed uh J Smith says thoughts on TCU

You know I think they’ll be in they’re a solid team not flashy um but they’re going to be sort of in the middle of the Big 12 any chance caller State can get ranked as Supreme the answer is yes um beating uh they have this

Week um they just beat San dieo State at home um yes they can get back in I’m drawing a blank on who they KJ what does Grant Canyon need to to get ranked just keep winning T baral can Yukon repeat yes this is by far the best chance a team has had to

Repeat as national champions since since the 0607 Florida Gators Yukon will go into the NC tournament as one of two favorites with Purdue you know Stefon what does St Mary’s need to do to get ranked I don’t know they should have been ranked you know ry’s done a great job again

Of finding the pieces that fit developing a roster that gets better over time and they’re tough the gals are consistently tough that was a crazy environment Saturday night stuff’s being thrown on the floor and The gales kept their composure Arms Reach with Gonzaga and they won the game so very

Impressive um all right so a couple of housekeeping items here every Monday right here top 25 AP pole reaction 1:00 Eastern starting tomorrow weekly brackets and that will be again one o’clock Eastern where we where we will react to the marchmadness bracket every Monday Tuesday the month

Of February and the first week of March right here on this app as always you can follow me at the Andy cats on Twitter X that’s what I call it or the real Andy cats on Instagram thanks everyone for engaging watching and have a great 24

Hours because we’ll see you at this same spot on Tuesday thanks everyone

March Madness correspondent Andy Katz streamed on Bleacher Report to break down the new men’s college basketball AP poll released on Feb. 5.

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