Villanova, Kansas remain 1-2 in poll

Unbeaten Gonzaga moves up one spot to season-high No. 3.

Villanova and Kansas remain the top two teams in The Associated Press college basketball poll while Gonzaga moved up to third.

The Wildcats (19-1) beat Seton Hall and Providence last week and received 35 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday. This is the seventh week on top this season for Villanova.

Kansas (18-1) was No. 1 on 28 ballots. Last week, the Jayhawks had 32 first-place votes, compared with 28 for Villanova.

Gonzaga (19-0), the last unbeaten team in Division I, got the other two first-place votes and moved up one spot to third, the Zags’ highest ranking of the season.

Kentucky and Baylor both moved up one place to fourth and fifth, while Florida State jumped from 10th to sixth, the Seminoles’ highest ranking since February 1993, when they also were sixth.

Arizona had the week’s biggest jump, going from 14th to No. 7 with its win at UCLA on Saturday. The loss knocked the Bruins from third to No. 8.

North Carolina and Oregon rounded out the top 10.

Butler was 11th, followed by Virginia, Louisville, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Creighton (which fell from a tie for seventh), Duke, West Virginia ( which also fell from a tie for seventh), Cincinnati and Purdue.

Monday’s games

■ No. 3 Gonzaga 83, (at) Portland 64: Zach Collins had 13 points as the Bulldogs (20-0, 8-0 West Coast) beat the Pilots (9-11, 2-6) in a game that was rescheduled because of a winter storm this month. Gonzaga has won 20 straight games, its longest streak since winning that many in the 2005-06 and 2003-04 seasons.

■ N.C. State 84, (at) No. 17 Duke 82: Dennis Smith Jr. scored a season-high 32 points as the Wolfpack (147, 3-5 ACC) upset the Blue Devils (15-5, 3-4) for their first win at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1995. Abdul-Malik Abu added 19 points for N.C. State, which used a 20-5 run to erase a 68-59 deficit in the final 6½ minutes. Luke Kennard had 20 points to lead Duke, which shot just 38 percent after halftime.