Alabama Basketball Up One Spot to No. 24 in Latest AP Poll

The Crimson Tide dropped its first game of the season over the weekend to Minnesota, but Avery Johnson's team still moved up in the latest AP top 25.

Alabama climbed one spot to No. 24 after beating a tough UT-Arlington team and knocking off BYU in Brooklyn before falling to Minnesota. The Crimson Tide actually finished that game with just three players after the entire bench was ejected in the second half, Dazon Ingram fouled out, and John Petty got injured.

Alabama will return to Tuscaloosa to begin a three-game homestand a trip to Tuscon to face Arizona. The Wildcats took the biggest drop in the poll this week after losing three games in the Bahamas. The team fell completely out of the top 25 after being inside the top 5 last week.

Here are the top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 26, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:

	Record	Pts	Prv
1. Duke (65)	8-0	1625	1
2. Kansas	5-0	1531	3
3. Michigan St.	5-1	1481	4
4. Villanova	6-0	1435	5
5. Notre Dame	6-0	1297	13
6. Florida	5-1	1272	7
7. Kentucky	6-1	1179	8
8. Wichita St.	4-1	1134	6
9. Texas A&M	6-0	1130	16
10. Miami	5-0	1001	11
11. Cincinnati	6-0	972	12
12. Minnesota	7-0	929	14
13. North Carolina	5-1	922	9
14. Southern Cal	4-1	681	10
15. Gonzaga	5-1	666	17
16. Baylor	5-0	576	22
17. Louisville	4-0	568	19
18. Virginia	6-0	510	-
19. West Virginia	6-1	418	23
20. Arizona St	6-0	383	-
21. Xavier	5-1	370	15
22. Texas Tech	6-0	247	-
23. TCU	6-0	133	-
24. Alabama	5-1	128	25
25. Creighton	5-1	124	-

Others receiving votes: Seton Hall 87, Nevada 61, UCLA 56, Purdue 56, Arizona 34, Washington St 25, Texas 22, Arkansas 17, Tennessee 14, Providence 9, Northwestern 8, Rhode Island 6, Saint Mary's (Cal) 5, Georgia 5, Oklahoma 3, UNLV 2, Vermont 1, Texas Arlington 1, Maryland 1.