BYU basketball: Cougars move up four spots in national polls

PROVO — The BYU basketball team vaulted four spots in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today coaches polls Monday.

In the AP poll, the Cougars moved from No. 18 to No. 14 while they jumped from No. 17 to No. 13 in the coaches' survey.

Riding a 13-game winning streak, BYU (18-1 overall) is one spot behind No. 12 West Virginia and ahead of No. 14 Georgetown in the ESPN/USA Today poll. They received 397 votes, close to cracking the top 10. No. 10 Gonzaga logged 419 votes.

BYU plays host to Wyoming Wednesday (6 p.m., The Mtn).

AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 17, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

Record Pts Pvs

1. Texas (57) 17-0 1,617 1

2. Kentucky (8) 18-0 1,568 2

3. Kansas 16-1 1,457 3

4. Villanova 16-1 1,442 4

5. Syracuse 17-1 1,376 5

6. Michigan St. 15-3 1,259 7

7. Duke 15-2 1,249 8

8. Tennessee 14-2 1,163 9

9. Pittsburgh 15-2 1,015 16

10. Kansas St. 15-2 989 13

11. West Virginia 13-3 922 10

12. Georgetown 13-3 873 11

13. Purdue 14-3 799 6

14. BYU 18-1 763 18

15. Gonzaga 14-3 748 17

16. Temple 15-3 581 19

17. Clemson 15-3 568 24

18. Wisconsin 14-4 542 13

19. Georgia Tech 13-4 380 20

20. N. Iowa 16-1 252 —

21. Ohio St. 13-5 228 —

22. Mississippi 13-4 211 21

23. Mississippi St. 15-3 189 —