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Saturday, January 6, 2001
Michigan State, Stanford still 1-2
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ARLINGTON, Virginia -- Michigan State strengthened its
grip on the top spot in the ESPN/USA Today college
basketball poll released Sunday.
The defending national champion (11-0) tuned up for the Big Ten
Conference schedule with easy victories over Bowling Green and
Wright State last week. Michigan State owns the nation's longest
winning streak at 22 games and will head into league play
without a loss for only the second time in school history.
The Spartans received 26 of 31 first-place votes and 770 points
from a panel of 31 Division I coaches.
Stanford (11-0) remained second with four first-place votes and
744 points after capturing the Cable Car Classic with wins over
Fordham and Santa Clara.
The top five positions in the poll remained unchanged with Duke
(11-1), Wake Forest (11-0) and Tennessee (13-1) following
Michigan State and Stanford. The Blue Devils received the other
first-place vote and trail the Cardinal by only 28 points.
Florida (10-1) and Kansas (11-1) both climbed one spot to sixth
and seventh, respectively. Illinois (10-3) dropped two slots to
eighth despite defeating Illinois-Chicago in its only game of
the week.
Virginia (10-0) and Connecticut round out the top 10.
Seton Hall (9-2) is next, followed by Wisconsin (9-1), Syracuse
(11-1), North Carolina (9-2) and Arizona (7-4). The Wildcats
will be without coach Lute Olson, who began an indefinite leave
of absence on Saturday to be with his seriously ill wife, Bobbi.
Oklahoma (11-1), Maryland (9-3), Alabama (10-1), Southern
California (10-2) and Georgetown fill out the top 20.
Mississippi (12-1), Texas (10-2), Iowa (11-2), Cincinnati (9-3)
and Notre Dame (8-2) complete the poll.
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ALSO SEE
ESPN/USA Today poll
AP poll
Texas reappears in AP poll; top 11 unchanged
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