Updated: March 11, 2013, 12:27 PM ET
ESPN.com Power Rankings: March 11
The final ESPN.com Power Rankings this season resulted in a tie? Did you expect anything else after a wild regular season of college basketball?
Gonzaga received more first-place votes (seven) than Duke (five), but each had 433 total points in our rankings. And let's not forget about Indiana, the Big Ten's regular-season champion, which got the remaining six first-place votes.
A couple of Big East teams, Louisville and Georgetown, round out this week's top five.
Read on for more, and click below to read our voters' individual ballots.
Editor's note: Team comments written by Robbi Pickeral.
Overall | Voters 1-6 | Voters 7-12 | Voters 13-18 || College Basketball Power Rankings - Week 19 | |||||
| RANK | TEAM / RECORD | TRENDING | PTS | COMMENT | |
| 1 | -- Last Week: 1 | 433 | The Zags, in their first-ever week as a No. 1 team, avoided this season's top-ranked roller coaster by blowing out Loyola Marymount (a team with only one conference win) in the semifinals of the WCC tournament. But they tied Duke in these rankings, thanks in part to their weaker-than-most schedule -- and the Blue Devils' strong performance last week. | ||
| 1 | 2 Last Week: 3 | 433 | The 14-0 game-opening run at North Carolina was about the rivalry. The rest of the blowout? A preparation for the postseason. The Devils are 3-0 with Ryan Kelly back from his foot injury. With Mason Plumlee dominating the inside and Seth Curry connecting from outside (as they did at UNC), this team is looking like the one that started the season 15-0 (and was ranked No. 1) before Kelly got hurt. | ||
| 3 | 1 Last Week: 2 | 429 | Another week, another Big Ten classic. Forward Cody Zeller hit a layup with 13 seconds left Sunday, then altered Michigan guard Trey Burke's shot at the other end to secure the Hoosiers' first outright Big Ten title since 1993. It was a key rally after Indiana lost to Ohio State earlier in the week. | ||
| 4 | 2 Last Week: 6 | 394 | After losing to Notre Dame in five overtimes last month, coach Rick Pitino set a goal of winning the final seven games of the regular season. The Cardinals accomplished that Saturday, topping the Irish 73-57 to win a share of the Big East title. After losing three straight in January, Louisville has won 10 of its past 11 games. | ||
| 5 | -- Last Week: 5 | 366 | After Villanova snapped the Hoyas' 11-game winning streak, Georgetown responded in a big way, holding Syracuse to its lowest scoring total (39 points) in 558 Big East games and its fewest points in any game since a 36-35 victory over Kent State in 1962. Georgetown shares the Big East regular-season title with Marquette and Louisville. | ||
| 6 | 2 Last Week: 4 | 338 | The Jayhawks had already secured a share of their ninth straight Big 12 regular-season title even before they tipped off against Baylor. Good thing. The Bears handed Kansas its biggest loss since it fell to Texas by 25 points in 2006, snapping the Jayhawks' seven-game winning streak. | ||
| 7 | 2 Last Week: 9 | 327 | Fifteen lead changes, three ties -- and Sunday's loss to Indiana came down to three missed free throws and two missed shots by the Wolverines in the final 52 seconds when the Hoosiers rallied from a four-point deficit. | ||
| 8 | 2 Last Week: 10 | 314 | The Spartans finished a grueling late-season stretch on a high note, beating Wisconsin and Northwestern to finish tied for second in the Big Ten. This came after three straight losses to ranked teams. | ||
| 9 | 5 Last Week: 14 | 300 | It was a big week for the Buckeyes, who toppled No. 2 Indiana, beat Illinois and entered Sunday with a chance to share the Big Ten title. Ultimately, Deshaun Thomas & Co. had to share second place, but they end the regular season on a five-game winning streak. | ||
| 10 | 3 Last Week: 7 | 294 | After losses at Duke and to Georgia Tech, the Hurricanes finally wrapped up their first ACC title with a win over Clemson on Saturday. The league championship is the second for the Hurricanes, who shared the Big East title in 2000, and they tied the school record for victories set in 2001-02, when they went 24-8. | ||
| 11 | 3 Last Week: 8 | 276 | Kentucky scored the final 11 points of the game to hand the Gators their third loss in six games. Florida, winner of the SEC, shot 40 percent in the loss, but it ranks ninth in the country in field goal percentage (48.5). | ||
| 12 | 3 Last Week: 15 | 262 | Winning a share of the Big East regular-season title for the first time since joining the conference is exciting enough. How about doing it on a last-second shot? Vander Blue's driving bucket in overtime finally toppled St. John's and marked the Golden Eagles' sixth victory in seven games. | ||
| 13 | 2 Last Week: 11 | 231 | Oklahoma State halted the Wildcats' six-game winning streak, but K-State ended up winning a share of a regular-season conference title for the first time since 1977. Rodney McGruder led the team with 15.1 PPG and 5.2 RPG. | ||
| 14 | 1 Last Week: 13 | 217 | After losing to Iowa State, the Cowboys ended their regular season on a high note, beating Kansas State by six. Freshman Marcus Smart yet again made his case for Big 12 Player of the Year, scoring 21 points and drawing a key charging call in the victory. | ||
| 15 | 3 Last Week: 12 | 191 | Despite 21 points from Kendall Williams, the Lobos allowed a four-point lead to slip away in the final 19 seconds at Air Force, as guard Todd Fletcher hit a game winner with 3.5 seconds left. UNM shot close to 59 percent for the game and still finishes the regular season in first place in the Mountain West. | ||
| 16 | 2 Last Week: 18 | 168 | J.J. Moore scored in double figures for the first time since January, and his five 3-pointers and 21 points were key to the Panthers' win over DePaul. "He's been playing good defense for us all along," Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon said, according to The Associated Press. "If he makes shots, he makes us a really good team." | ||
| 17 | 1 Last Week: 16 | 167 | It took overtime for someone to break the Billikens' 11-game winning streak -- but Xavier (which also played spoiler to Memphis' 18-game streak recently) finally did it. After shooting a season-worst 30 percent in that loss, SLU connected on 58 percent of its shots against La Salle. VCU's Sunday loss gave the Billikens the outright A-10 title. | ||
| 18 | 4 Last Week: 22 | 100 | The Wildcats got defensive against Arizona State and earned a coveted first-day bye in the Pac-12 tournament. They forced 17 turnovers and got 17 points from Nick Johnson to halt a two-game slide. | ||
| 19 | 4 Last Week: 23 | 88 | After hitting a game-winning shot against Washington early last month, Larry Drew II buried another crucial bucket in the final minute at Washington on Saturday, helping to secure the Pac-12 title. Drew also became UCLA's single-season assists leader. | ||
| 20 | 4 Last Week: 24 | 86 | Guard Joe Jackson came one rebound short of a triple-double against UAB as Memphis secured an undefeated season (16-0) in Conference USA play. The Tigers' only loss since December: a Feb. 26 letdown at Xavier. | ||
| 21 | 5 Last Week: NR | 82 | Doug McDermott missed six of his first seven shots and finished with a low-for-him 14 points against Wichita State, but teammate Jahenns Manigat's layup with 11.5 seconds left secured the Bluejays' second straight MVC tournament title. Creighton, which lost three straight in early February, has now won five in a row entering the NCAA tournament. | ||
| 22 | 5 Last Week: 17 | 79 | Coach Jim Boeheim called his team's 61-39 dismantling by Georgetown -- in which the Orange shot only 32 percent and went 1-for-11 on 3-pointers -- "a blip." Another one, that is. Cuse enters the postseason having lost four of its past five, all to Top 25 teams. | ||
| 23 | 3 Last Week: 20 | 77 | Traevon Jackson made sure the Badgers didn't enter the postseason on a three-game losing streak, hitting a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to top Penn State. "After losing two straight, we got down on ourselves," freshman Sam Dekker told AP after the game. "That will hopefully be a momentum-shifter for us going into the Big Ten tournament." | ||
| 24 | 5 Last Week: 19 | 62 | Saint Louis' loss gave the Rams a chance to win part of the A-10 regular-season title. But they didn't capitalize, losing Sunday to Temple, allowing the Owls to erase a 16-point deficit. Coach Shaka Smart said his team lost its fire after a big first half -- something it can't afford to do in the postseason. | ||
| 25 | -- Last Week: 25 | 37 | Louisville shot a sizzling 67 percent in the first half, setting the tone for the Irish's second loss to a ranked team in their past three games. Notre Dame had held three of its previous four opponents to 50 or fewer points; not this time. | ||
| Others receiving votes: UNLV (19), North Carolina (17), Colorado State (14), Missouri (14), Saint Mary's (11), Oregon (7), California (6), Belmont (5), Butler (3), Wichita State (3), Boise State (1), Denver (1) | |||||
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