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LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball held firm at No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, after winning back-to-back games during the first week of its season.
The No. 1 Jayhawks (2-0) topped both Howard and UNC at home. They coasted by Howard, before surviving a battle inside Allen Fieldhouse against North Carolina. And coming up, they’ll soon be tested again.
Kansas has a natural site game Tuesday in Atlanta against Michigan State (2-0). It’s yet another edition of the Champions Classic. The last time these two sides met, back during the 2021-22 season, the Jayhawks defeated the Spartans.
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College basketball ranking for Week 2
USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll
Rank
School
Points
Last week’s rank
First-place votes
1
Kansas
759
1
21
2
Alabama
724
2
4
3
UConn
702
3
3
4
Auburn
660
11
2
5
Gonzaga
651
7
1
6
Duke
608
5
0
7
Iowa State
576
6
0
8
Arizona
516
9
0
9
Tennessee
502
12
0
10
Houston
488
4
0
11
North Carolina
456
10
0
12
Purdue
437
13
0
13
Creighton
385
14
0
14
Baylor
328
8
0
15
Marquette
308
17
0
16
Indiana
234
18
0
17
Cincinnati
230
20
0
18
Kentucky
182
23
0
19
Florida
179
21
0
20
Illinois
151
24
0
21
Arkansas
150
16
0
22
Ohio State
148
NR
0
23
Texas A&M
99
15
0
24
Rutgers
84
NR
0
25
St. John’s
79
NR
0
Schools Dropped Out:
No. 19 Texas; No. 22 UCLA; No. 25 Ole Miss;
Others Receiving Votes:
Texas Tech 75; Ole Miss 60; Texas 54; Xavier 38; Oregon 37; Michigan State 29; BYU 29; UCLA 18; UCF 17; Wake Forest 12; Saint Mary’s 12; Kansas State 9; Clemson 9; New Mexico 8; Dayton 8; North Florida 7; Maryland 5; Providence 4; Mississippi State 4; Nevada 2; San Francisco 1; Grand Canyon 1.
Kansas basketball will enter the second week of the college season as the No. 1 team in the nation in the coaches poll.
Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.
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