Kansas is within two votes of being a unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll the same week a record-tying seven teams moved into the Top 25.
The Jayhawks received all but two first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday to remain No. 1 for the fourth straight poll. Texas moved up one spot to No. 2, matching its highest ranking.
Villanova, Purdue, Kentucky, Duke, West Virginia, Syracuse, Michigan State and North Carolina rounds out the top 10.
Florida leads the newcomers at No. 13. No. 25 Portland is in the poll for the first time in 50 years.
Michigan, which was 15th, was the highest ranked team to fall out of the poll.
Seven teams moved into the poll in December 1955.
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