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With last week’s losses by former No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 2 North Carolina, formerly third-ranked Villanova now becomes the sixth school to hold the No. 1 spot this season, just one off the all-time NCAA record. This season, Kentucky and Carolina were both ranked No. 1 for two weeks. Michigan State held on to the No.1 ranking for three weeks while Kansas held it for two weeks and Oklahoma, three. In 1982-83, a whopping seven teams, (North Carolina, UCLA, Houston, Indiana, Memphis, Virginia and UNLV) held on to the No. 1 spot in the country briefly. There have been six No. 1s in five other seasons with the last coming during the 2008-09 season when North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Wake Forest, Duke, Connecticut and Louisville all managed to reach No. 1 nationally. With the arrival of Week 14, the Villanova Wildcats have reached No. 1 for the first time in the school’s storied program. New No. 2 Maryland has also never been ranked No.1 in the nation. The Sooners and Tar Heels losses against unranked teams marked the first time in 10 years that the top two teams lost on the same day to programs ranked outside the Top 25. Villanova garnered 32 of 65 first-place votes while Maryland received 13 and No. 4 Iowa had 11 votes. No. 3 Oklahoma received seven first-place votes despite suffering losses in consecutive weeks. Virginia and Kansas both received one vote for the top spot. Villanova’s next game comes on Tuesday at DePaul. Maryland is home to Bowie State on Tuesday, but Bowie State is not a Division I school. The Terps’ next game in Big Ten play is on Saturday at home against Wisconsin.Top Spot: Wildcats are No. 1 in both Major Polls for the first time in program history | https://t.co/klUWGS2jNp pic.twitter.com/WN9PrgMgsZ
— Villanova MBB (@NovaMBB) February 8, 2016
