Texas (15-0) is No. 1 in the Associated Press poll for the first time, receiving 56 first-place votes. Kentucky (16-0) moved from third to second and received nine first-place votes. Kansas, No. 1 in the preseason poll and for the first eight weeks, dropped to third after losing to Tennessee on Sunday.
There was a lot of movement in the poll following a week in which 15 ranked teams lost at least once, including five in the top 10.
Villanova is No. 4, followed by Syracuse, Purdue, Michigan State, Duke, Tennessee and West Virginia.
•Jerry Wainwright was fired by DePaul with the school mired in a 22-game regular season losing streak in the Big East. Assistant Tracy Webster takes over on an interim basis. After a 5-1 start, the Blue Demons are 7-8 and 0-3 in the Big East this season, Wainwright's fifth at DePaul. He had two more years left on his contract. DePaul went 20-14 and made the NIT in 2006-07, its lone winning season under Wainwright. He is the fourth Division I coach to leave his position since the season started. Glenn Miller (Penn) and Dereck Whittenburg (Fordham) were fired; Terry Dunn (Dartmouth) resigned.
•Michigan's John Beilein agreed to an extension through 2015-16. Beilein, in his third season, has a 39-43 overall mark, 8-7 this season. Michigan made the NCAA tournament last season for the first time since 1998.
•Former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian said he thinks the NCAA is "the crookedest organization in our society," drawing several laughs during a luncheon at the Downtown Tip-Off Club in North Little Rock, Ark.
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