SMU Mustangs re-enter top 25 after 30 years (AP top 25 men's basketball included)
In their second season under the 73-year-old Hall of Fame coach, the No. 23 Mustangs moved into the Top 25 for the first time since the next-to-last poll of 1984-85, a season when they reached as high as No. 2.
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SMU (19-5) moved in off a 76-53 victory over then-No. 7 Cincinnati, a win that snapped the Bearcats' 15-game winning streak. It was the Mustangs' third win over a ranked team in a seven-game span since they moved back into a renovated Moody Coliseum five weeks ago.
Before the streak, SMU hadn't beaten a ranked team since December 2003, and the last time the Mustangs beat more than one ranked team in a season was 1984-85, when Jon Koncak was the star player and Dave Bliss was coach. Incidentally, the '84-85 team lost nine of its final 16 games and finished the season unranked, according to ESPN Stats & Info.
Other ranked teams SMU has beaten this season were then-No. 17 Connecticut and then-No. 22 Memphis, like Cincinnati, all American Athletic Conference games.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10431439/smu-mustangs-re-enter-top-25-30-year-absence
AP Top 25
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Syracuse (65) 23-0 1,625
2 Arizona 23-1 1,525
3 Florida 21-2 1,477
4 Wichita State 25-0 1,445
5 San Diego State 21-1 1,373
6 Villanova 21-2 1,288
7 Kansas 18-5 1,234
8 Duke 19-5 1,130
9 Michigan State 20-4 1,025
10 Cincinnati 22-3 970
11 Iowa State 18-4 925
12 Saint Louis 22-2 908
13 Louisville 19-4 866
14 Kentucky 18-5 769
15 Michigan 17-6 702
16 Iowa 18-6 686
17 Virginia 19-5 608
18 Creighton 19-4 552
19 Texas 18-5 417
20 Memphis 18-5 333
21 Wisconsin 19-5 242
22 Ohio State 19-5 214
23 Southern Methodist 19-5 205
24 Connecticut 18-5 194
25 Pittsburgh 20-4 175
Others receiving votes: Oklahoma 99, Gonzaga 44, UCLA 43, New Mexico 23, Oklahoma State 10, George Washington 6, Southern Miss 6, Stephen F. Austin 3, Kansas State 1, North Carolina 1, Arizona State 1
Dropped from rankings: Oklahoma State 19, Oklahoma 21, Gonzaga 23
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