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MSU drops to No. 4 in latest AP poll

January 8, 2018

The men's basketball team fell from No. 1 to No. 4 in the latest Associated Press top 25 poll rankings released on Monday, following its 80-64 loss to Ohio State in Columbus yesterday.

The Spartans took over the top spot in the rankings for the first time this season last week after then-No. 1 Villanova dropped their first game of the season to unranked Butler.

MSU's seven days spent at No. 1 is the shortest in program history.

The only other Big Ten team to be ranked in this edition of the AP poll is Purdue, who's tied with Wichita State for the No. 5 spot.

The rest of the rankings go as follows:

1. Villanova

2. West Virginia

3. Virginia

4. Michigan State

5. Wichita State

5. Purdue

7. Duke

8. Texas Tech

9. Oklahoma

10. Xavier

11. Arizona State

12. Kansas

13. Seton Hall

14. Cincinnati

15. Gonzaga

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16. TCU

17. Arizona

18.  Miami (FL)

19. Clemson

20. North Carolina

21. Kentucky

22. Auburn

23. Florida State

24. Tennessee

25. Creighton 

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