Michigan Up To No. 7 And Michigan State Falls To No. 9 In New AP Poll

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By JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Gonzaga and Virginia remain Nos. 1-2 in a week of big changes in the AP Top 25 .

The Bulldogs received 42 of 64 votes in the men's college basketball poll released Monday after finishing an undefeated run through the West Coast Conference. The Cavaliers had 21 first-place votes and No. 4 Duke, which fell a spot, had the remaining one.

1. Gonzaga

2. Virginia

3. North Carolina

4. Duke

5. Tennessee

6. Kentucky

7. Michigan

8. Texas Tech

9. Michigan State

10. LSU

11. Purdue

12. Houston

13. Kansas

14. Florida State

15. Virginia Tech

16. Marquette

17. Nevada

18. Kansas State

19. Buffalo

20. Cincinnati

21. Wisconsin

22. Wofford

23. Villanova

24. Maryland

25. UCF

North Carolina and Tennessee both moved up two spots, to Nos. 3 and 5.

Gonzaga and Virginia were the only teams to hold their spots from last week.

The Zags moved to No. 1 last week and beat Pacific and Saint Mary's this week to extend the nation's longest winning streak to 20 games.

No. 25 Central Florida is ranked for the first time since 2010-11.___More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25