WVU moves to 11th in poll
Mountaineers scheduled to face top-ranked Gonzaga on Wednesday
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WVU head coach Bob Huggins talks with a player during the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic held at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.
(AP) -- The first Associated Press men's college basketball poll of the regular season remained steady at the top.
The rest, predictably, was filled with change as teams exceeded or failed to live up to preseason expectations.
Gonzaga and Baylor remained Nos. 1-2 in the poll released Monday. The Zags received 57 of 63 first-place votes from a media panel and the Bears had six first-place votes. They were the only two teams to hold their places from the preseason poll.
Gonzaga is scheduled to face No. 11 West Virginia Wednesday in Indianapolis.
Villanova fell nine places to No. 12 after losing to Virginia Tech, which moved into the poll at No. 16. Virginia also took a big tumble after losing to San Francisco, dropping 11 spots to No. 15.
The two losses allowed Iowa to move up two spots to No. 3, with Wisconsin and Illinois rounding out the top five. The Illini are in the top five for the first time since reaching No. 1 in 2004-05.
RISING/FALLING
Virginia and Villanova had two of the biggest drops in the opening regular-season poll, but there was plenty of other movement.
Houston climbed seven spots from No. 17 after knocking off No. 17 Texas Tech, which dropped three spots from last week.
No. 8 Michigan State climbed five spots after beating Notre Dame and Eastern Michigan.
No. 20 Kentucky fell 10 spots after losing at home to Richmond.