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North Carolina holds No. 1 in next-to-last AP poll of the year

>(AP) – North Carolina’s weekend win over Duke kept the Tar Heels on top of The Associated Press’ college basketball poll Monday.

The top five teams held their spots from last week in the next-to-last poll of the season.

The Tar Heels (29-2), who beat Duke 76-68 to win the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title, received 52 first-place votes and 1,776 points from the 72-member national media panel. It was North Carolina’s second week in its second stint as No. 1. The Tar Heels were on top of the preseason Top 25 and the first 10 polls of the regular season.

Memphis (30-1), which finished its second straight unbeaten season in Conference USA with convincing wins over SMU and UAB, held second with 13 first-place votes. UCLA (28-3), which swept home games over Stanford and California to win its third straight outright Pac-10 title, was No. 1 on five ballots to stay third.

Tennessee (28-3) received the other two first-place votes. The Volunteers remained fourth after clinching their first outright Southeastern Conference title since 1967 with a win over Florida last week.

Kansas and Texas, co-champions of the Big 12, were fifth and sixth. The Jayhawks stayed fifth after wins over Texas Tech and Texas A&M, while the Longhorns moved up three places after victories over Nebraska and Oklahoma State.

Duke dropped one place to seventh while Big Ten champion Wisconsin, Big East champion Georgetown and Atlantic 10 champion Xavier rounded out the Top 10.

Stanford, which lost at UCLA and Southern California last week, dropped from seventh to No. 11 and was followed by Butler, Louisville, Notre Dame, Connecticut, Drake, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Michigan State and Gonzaga.

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