College basketball rankings: UCLA joins top five of AP Top 25, FAU in poll for first time in school history .

 College basketball rankings: UCLA joins top five of AP Top 25, FAU in poll for first time in school history .

         A wild week in college basketball produced significant changes across the latest AP Top 25 poll released on Monday with UCLA moving up to No. 5 and Xavier and Virginia entering the top 10. The Bruins bumped up two spots from No. 7 last week after both Tennessee and UConn -- ranked No. 4 and No. 5 last week -- stumbled. 

UCLA meanwhile handled business at home vs. Utah and Colorado on the week to keep its perfect Pac-12 record intact as its lead in the league standings held at one game.    

Xavier's rise up four spots to No. 8 this week marked the program's first top-10 ranking since the 2017-18 season when it climbed as high as No. 3 under then-coach Chris Mack. First-year coach Sean Miller has led the Musketeers to a 15-3 overall record and a 7-0 mark in the Big East which is its best start in league play since joining the league. Xavier's hot start has made such an impression that Marquette -- which beat UConn earlier in the week then lost to Xavier on Sunday -- still climbed in the poll five spots up to No. 20. 

AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:

     

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS	PREV.
1	Houston (34)	17-1	1,460	1
2	Kansas (23)	16-1	1,446	2
3	Purdue (3)	16-1	1,382	3
4	Alabama	15-2	1,347	4
5	UCLA	16-2	1,237	7
6	Gonzaga	16-3	1,178	8
7	Texas	15-2	1,122	10
8	Xavier	15-3	1,047	12
9	Tennessee	14-3	1,019	5
10	Virginia	13-3	926	13
11	Arizona	15-3	838	9
12	Iowa State	13-3	795	14
13	Kansas State	15-2	771	11
14	TCU	14-3	753	17
15	UConn	15-4	668	6
16	Auburn	14-3	553	21
17	Miami (Fla.)	14-3	487	16
18	Charleston	18-1	351	22
19	Clemson	15-3	339	NR
20	Marquette	14-5	306	25
21	Baylor	12-5	267	NR
22	Providence	14-4	262	19
23	Rutgers	13-5	131	NR
24	Florida Atlantic	16-1	126	NR
25	Arkansas	12-5	115	15

Others receiving votes: NC State 111, Saint Mary's 106, Arizona St 79, New Mexico 67, Illinois 61, San Diego State 44, Michigan State 29, Duke 24, Wisconsin 14, Creighton 9, Kent State 8, Boise State 6, Texas A&M 5, Ohio State 3, Missouri 3, Iowa 2, VCU 2, North Carolina 1.