Kentucky dropped one spot in the new Coaches Poll

Not long after the AP updated its Top 25 for the sport of men’s college basketball, the USA Today Sports Coaches Poll followed suit with its new pecking order of the best teams so far.

And unlike the AP poll, where Kentucky stayed in place with a No. 19 ranking, the coaches gave the Wildcats a slight drop down their order following the 20-point win over Florida A&M and other results around the country last week. Kentucky is now 17th in the eyes of the coaches in this new Week 8 update, one spot back from the previous 16th-place ranking.

At the top, Purdue and Connecticut still have unbeaten records, followed by Houston at third, Kansas at fourth, and Arizona in fifth.

Missouri is still unranked; although, the SEC has three teams in the Top 10 in Arkansas (7), Alabama (9), and Tennessee (10), and another three in the Top 25 in Kentucky (17), Mississippi State (20), and Auburn (23).

USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll – Week 8

		Record	Last Week	Points
1	Purdue	12-0	1	790
2	UConn	13-0	2	772
3	Houston	12-1	3	718
4	Kansas	11-1	4	695
5	Arizona	12-1	5	673
6	Texas	10-1	7	605
7	Arkansas	11-1	8	541
8	UCLA	11-2	9	540
9	Alabama	10-2	10	532
10	Tennessee	10-2	11	423
11	Gonzaga	10-3	12	493
12	Virginia	8-2	6	483
13	Baylor	9-2	13	477
14	Duke	10-3	14	312
15	Wisconsin	10-1	18	292
16	Miami	12-1	22	290
17	Kentucky	8-3	16	280
18	Indiana	10-3	21	213
19	TCU	10-1	19	202
20	Mississippi State	11-1	15	169
21	Maryland	9-3	23	96
22	Illinois	8-4	16	90
23	Auburn	10-2	24	88
24	West Virginia	10-2	NR	87
25	Xavier	10-3	NR	79

Others receiving votes: Ohio St. 70; North Carolina 56; Virginia Tech 50; Memphis 27; New Mexico 26; Missouri 19; Iowa State 17; Kansas State 15; San Diego St. 13; Charleston 12; Arizona State 9; Southern California 7; Providence 7; Marquette 6; Saint Mary’s 5; Florida Atlantic 5; Texas Tech 4; Rutgers 4; Michigan St. 4; Utah St. 2; Iowa 2.