In a year unlike any other, and a college basketball season that is struggling to make it to the finish line, the sport is undergoing a complete changing of the guard at the top. In fact, only the NFL, with Super Bowl LV coming right up, has been able to have every scheduled game played every week. There were, however, some that were played later in the week they were scheduled.
Back to college hoops, though: since Christmas of 1961, either Kentucky, Duke, or North Carolina has been ranked by the AP. And back in 1961, only 10 teams were in the poll.
This week, Duke was the latest to drop from the poll after losses to Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh, knocking the Blue Devils out of the rankings for the first time in almost five years.
It's the first time since 1982 that neither Duke nor North Carolina has been ranked. The Tar Heels dropped from the AP poll four weeks ago after consecutive losses to NC State and Georgia Tech.
Kentucky was in the preseason top 10 but started the season 1-6 - the Wildcats' worst start to a season since 1911. They haven't been included in the AP poll since November.