Michigan State Still No. 1 in Both NCAA Polls

College basketball is in that weird period where student-athletes are done with final exams in the fall/winter semester and teams are coasting into conference play against less-than-spectacular opponents. As such, the latest AP and Coaches polls are largely unchanged from last week—Michigan State still has a stranglehold on the No. 1 spot in the country, its top two challengers are from the Big 12 (Oklahoma and Kansas), and outside of one team in the AP Poll and two teams in the Coaches, all of the teams stayed the same.

Here’s this week’s AP Poll, via ESPN:

1. Michigan State (64 first-place votes)
2. Kansas (1)
3. Oklahoma
4. Maryland
5. Virginia
6. Xavier
7. North Carolina
8. Arizona
9. Butler
10. Kentucky
11. Iowa State
12. Providence
13. Miami (FL)
14. Purdue
15. Duke
16. Villanova
17. SMU
18. Louisville
19. West Virginia
20. Texas A&M
21. Utah
22. Cincinnati
23. Baylor
24. South Carolina
25. UCLA

And here is this week’s Coaches Poll, also via ESPN:

1. Michigan State (27)
2. Oklahoma (3)
3. Kansas (1)
4. Maryland
5. Virginia
6. Xavier
7. Arizona
8. North Carolina
9. Iowa State
10. Butler
11. Kentucky
12. Duke
13. Providence
14. Purdue
15. Miami (FL)
16. Villanova
17. West Virginia
18. Louisville
19. Texas A&M
20. South Carolina
21. Baylor
22. Utah
23. Cincinnati
24. Gonzaga
25. Pittsburgh