Villanova at top for just 2nd time ever

Reigning national champion Villanova is No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the second time in school history.

The Wildcats (8-0), who were No. 1 for three weeks in February last season, moved up one spot from last week with 57 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday.

UCLA (9-0), which beat No. 1 Kentucky 97-92 on Saturday, jumped from 11th to second with two first-place votes. Kentucky, which dropped to sixth, had been No. 1 for the past two weeks. Duke is the other team to be No. 1 this season, for two weeks.

Kansas moved from fourth to third and Baylor (8-0) jumped from ninth to No. 4 and received the other six first-place votes.

Duke held fifth and was followed by Kentucky, North Carolina, Gonzaga, Indiana and Creighton.

Louisville is 11th, followed by Saint Mary’s, Xavier, Virginia and West Virginia, which made the jump from 25th to 15th after winning at Virginia, dropping the Cavaliers from sixth to No. 14.

Butler is 16th, followed by Wisconsin, Purdue, South Carolina and Arizona. The last five ranked teams are Florida, Cincinnati, Notre Dame, Oregon and Iowa State.

Eastern Kentucky: Authorities in Richmond, Ky., announced that Colonels senior guard Jaylen Babb-Harrison, 23, was arrested Sunday on a first-degree rape charge.

A statement from Eastern Kentucky said Babb-Harrison has been suspended from the team. It also said the school is cooperating with police.