The Virginia men’s basketball program heads into its final week of the 2017/2018 regular season still on top of the Associated Press Top 25. This is the third consecutive week the Cavaliers have held the No. 1 ranking.
Virginia, which clinched the ACC regular season title outright with wins over Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh last week, received 48 first-place votes and 1,608 total points. This week the Hoos (26-2) travel to Louisville on March 1 before finishing out the regular season with a home contest versus Notre Dame on March 3.
Rounding out this latest AP Top 5 is Michigan State, Xavier, Villanova and Duke. The Spartans (28-3) received 17 first-place votes. North Carolina and Clemson are the other ACC schools in the AP Top 25, coming in at No. 9 and No. 18, respectively. NC State, Florida State and Virginia Tech also received votes.
