Virginia tops depleted Louisville

Louisville suspended senior center Mangok Mathiang and sophomore forward Deng Adel for Monday night’s game at No. 12 Virginia, leaving the fourth-ranked Cardinals without two main players for the Atlantic Coast Conference matchup.

The Cavaliers (18-5, 8-3) took advantage, winning 7155 behind 18 points from London Perrantes. V.J. King led the Cardinals (19-5, 7-4) with 24.

The school said Mathiang and Adel were suspended for violating team curfew Saturday night. Coach Rick Pitino said in a statement that Adel and Mathiang were out late after the Cardinals returned from Saturday’s win at Boston College and added, “The players were fully aware that we have zero tolerance in this area.”

Gonzaga holds No. 1 spot:

Gonzaga is No. 1 in a second straight Associated Press poll following a week in which six of the top 10 teams lost at least one game.

The Bulldogs (24-0), the only remaining unbeaten team in Division I, received 59 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Villanova (22-2) moved from fourth to second after receiving the other six No. 1 votes.

Kansas, which saw its 51-game winning streak at Allen Fieldhouse end over the weekend, held at third while Louisville jumped from sixth to fourth. Oregon, coming off an impressive win over Arizona, went from 13th to fifth.

Heels’ win a home game:

The NCAA determined that North Carolina’s victory over Notre Dame in Greensboro, N.C., will count as a home game for the Tar Heels and a road game for the Fighting Irish in its RPI rankings.

The game was originally set for Saturday in Chapel Hill but was pushed back a day and moved 50 miles to Greensboro because of an emergency with the water system that supplies the main campus. The Tar Heels won 83-76.

Bragg back: Kansas lifted the indefinite suspension of sophomore Carlton Bragg Jr., who missed the Jayhawks’ last three games after he was charged with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.