With the 2024/25 NCAA basketball regular season officially wrapped, the AP dropped its final Top 25 rankings on Monday, with shifts mirroring last weekend’s rollercoaster finale.
While not enough to dethrone co-SEC champion No. 1 Texas, newly minted Big Ten title-winner USC’s series sweep of crosstown rival UCLA earned the Trojans their highest ranking in 39 years, taking over the Bruins’s No. 2 spot on Monday.
“A goal was to come here and bring USC back to what it was at one point,” USC head coach Lindsay Gottlieb told AP after the rankings announcement.
In a full swap with USC, UCLA shifted an identical two spots down to No. 4, with Big East winner UConn jumping up to the No. 3 position.
Tough losses shake up AP Poll rankings
After a tough run that saw the struggling Irish lose two straight games — and their outright claim to the ACC regular-season title — Notre Dame slid three spots to No. 6, just below defending NCAA champs No. 5 South Carolina. ACC foe NC State, who beat the Irish to the conference tournament’s No. 1 seed, is now chasing Notre…
