USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 College Basketball Poll Team (First-place votes) Record Points Previous Rank 1. Kansas Jayhawks (30) 29-2 774 2 2. Kentucky Wildcats 29-2 740 3 3. Syracuse Orange (1) 28-3 709 1 4. Duke Blue Devils 26-5 661 4 5. Purdue Boilermakers 26-4 625 6 6. West Virginia Mountaineers 24-6 610 8 7. Ohio State Buckeyes 24-7 604 7 8. New Mexico Lobos 28-3 526 10 9. Kansas State Wildcats 24-6 501 5 10. Villanova Wildcats 24-6 476 9 11. Michigan State Spartans 24-7 463 12 12. Butler Bulldogs 27-4 461 11 13. Tennessee Volunteers 23-7 387 13 14. Gonzaga Bulldogs 26-5 347 14 15. B-Y-U Cougars 28-4 324 15 16. Pittsburgh Panthers 24-7 295 18 17. Temple Owls 26-5 282 16 18. Wisconsin Badgers 23-7 273 17 19. Maryland Terrapins 23-7 210 23 20. Baylor Bears 24-6 167 22 21. Texas-El Paso Miners 24-5 153 21 22. Georgetown Hoyas 20-9 125 20 23. Vanderbilt Commodores 23-7 117 19 24. Texas A&M Aggies 22-8 103 24 25. Northern Iowa Panthers 28-4 54 NR Others receiving votes: Utah State 24, Xavier 24, Cornell 10, Texas 7, St. Mary's-CA 6, Richmond 5, California 4, Oklahoma State 2, U-N-L-V 2, Virginia Tech 2, Memphis 1, Old Dominion 1. ©USA Today As of March 8, 2010, at 01:54 PM ET