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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Ravens, Saints, Seahawks are top 3 in AP Pro32 poll
By SIMMI BUTTAR
AP Pro Football Writer
NEW YORK — Lamar
Jackson and the Baltimore
Ravens have scored a per-
fect 10.
Led by their star quarter-
back, the Ravens extended
their winning streak to 10
games and wrapped up the
AFC North with a rout of
the New York Jets last week.
With another win, the
Ravens will clinch a fi rst-
round bye and home-fi eld
advantage throughout the
AFC playoffs.
And the NFL’s top team
is once again the unanimous
choice as the top team in the
latest AP Pro32 poll. For the
third consecutive week, the
Ravens earned all 12 fi rst-
place votes for 384 points in
balloting Tuesday by media
members who regularly
cover the NFL.
“No stopping Lamar
Jackson,” Fox Sports’ John
Czarnecki said.
The New Orleans Saints
moved up one spot to No.
2 after their dominating
34-7 win over the India-
napolis Colts on Monday
night. Drew Brees became
the NFL’s all-time leader in
touchdown passes, throw-
AP Photo/Gail Burton, File
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson (8) scrambles for yardage against the New York Jets during the fi rst half of an
NFL football game on Dec. 12, 2019, in Baltimore.
ing for four scores. He
completed 29 of 30 passes
— 96.7 percent — for 307
yards before being relieved
by Teddy Bridgewater in the
fourth quarter.
“Drew Brees breaks
Peyton Manning’s career
touchdowns record with
yet another dominant per-
formance,” said Newsday’s
Bob Glauber. “Ten years
after the Saints’ Super Bowl
run, Brees looks ready to do
it again.”
The Seattle Seahawks
also moved up one place to
No. 3 after topping Caro-
lina. And the San Francisco
49ers slipped two spots to
No. 4 after their 29-22 loss
to the Atlanta Falcons.
The NFC West rivals
are tied at 11-3. The 49ers
host the Los Angeles Rams
on Saturday night and the
Seahawks host the Arizona
Cardinals on Sunday. The
Seahawks host the 49ers in
Week 17 to close out the reg-
ular season.
“The Seahawks rebounded
nicely after being drubbed by
the Rams, but the real test
comes in the season fi nale
against the 49ers,” said Ira
Kaufman of Fox 13 in Tampa,
Florida.
And the Kansas City
Chiefs slipped a spot to No.
5 despite their 23-3 rout
of the Denver Broncos at
snowy Arrowhead Stadium.
The next four teams in
the poll all kept their places
from last week after wins:
the Green Bay Packers at 6,
the New England Patriots at
7, the Minnesota Vikings at
8, and the Buffalo Bills at 9.
The Bills head to Fox-
borough, Massachusetts, on
Saturday to face the Patri-
ots, who are trying to clinch
the AFC East title for the
11th consecutive year.
And the Packers head
to Minnesota for the fi nal
Monday night game of the
season and can wrap up the
NFC North with a win.
The Houston Texans
moved up one spot to round
out the top 10 after edging
the Tennessee Titans 24-21.
The Texans open Week 16
as they head to Tampa Bay
to face the Buccaneers on
Saturday afternoon. A win
would give them their fourth
division title in six years.
Kansas faces test of holding onto No. 1 spot in AP Top 25
By AARON BEARD
AP Basketball Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. —
Michigan State, Kentucky,
Duke and Louisville have
each spent time at No. 1 in
the AP Top 25 men’s college
basketball poll only to lose
quickly. The challenge now
falls on Kansas to avoid the
same fate.
The Jayhawks reached No.
1 in Monday’s poll, mark-
ing the fi rst time the AP poll
has had fi ve different No. 1s
before New Year’s Day. They
play once this week with their
new ranking, visiting No. 18
Villanova on Saturday.
None of the previous four
teams to hold the No. 1 rank-
ing this season have won
more than twice before stum-
bling, illustrating that this is a
year with no dominant team
in college basketball.
Kansas (9-1), which
earned 47 of 65 fi rst-place
votes, hasn’t lost since fall-
ing to Duke in the Champi-
ons Classic to open the sea-
son. That run has included
winning the Maui Invita-
tional and beating a then-
ranked Colorado team, with
all but the overtime win
against Dayton for the Maui
title coming by double-digit
margins.
“We’ve done what we’re
supposed to do,” Kansas
coach Bill Self said last week
of potentially rising to No.
1. “We’ve played pretty well
since the Duke game.”
The Jayhawks commit-
ted 28 turnovers in that game
but have done a better job
taking care of the basketball
since; they had 21 turnovers
against the Buffaloes but
have had 15 or fewer in every
other game. They entered the
week alongside No. 3 Louis-
ville and No. 5 Ohio State as
the only teams in the top 12
of KenPom’s adjusted offen-
sive and defensive effi ciency
rankings.
After Saturday’s win
against UMKC, Self said
the team would have to work
around exam schedules as it
prepared for Villanova.
“We are going to give Vil-
lanova three intense days of
practice even though they
will be an hour-and-a-half
long, probably each one of
them, not long, because of
fi nals,” Self said.
The Jayhawks will fi nd
out if that’s enough to pass
their fi rst test at No. 1.
The big matchup
Fifth-ranked Ohio State
and sixth-ranked Kentucky
have the week’s headlining
matchup in Saturday’s CBS
Sports Classic in Las Vegas.
For the Buckeyes, it will be
a chance to add to an already
impressive nonconference
resume that could position
them for a top NCAA Tour-
nament seed come Selection
Sunday.
Ohio State (9-1) already
has 25-point wins against
both Villanova and then-
ranked North Carolina. Chris
Holtmann’s team lost at Min-
nesota in Big Ten play Sunday
but returns to action Tuesday
against Southeast Missouri
State at home before playing
John Calipari’s Wildcats.
Kentucky (8-1) is playing
a doubleheader this week in
Las Vegas, fi rst against Utah
on Wednesday.
Been a while
No. 23 Penn State (9-2)
is in the AP poll for the fi rst
time since the fi nal poll of the
1995-96 season. The Nittany
Lions play their fi rst game
with that ranking Friday
against Central Connecticut
State.
Ranked to unranked
No. 2 Gonzaga, No. 7
Maryland and No. 13 Dayton
all have matchups with for-
merly ranked teams.
The Bulldogs (11-1), who
claimed 15 fi rst-place votes
to jump four spots in the lat-
est poll, host North Caro-
lina on Wednesday night.
It comes with the Tar Heels
(6-4) sliding from No. 5 in
November to unranked for
the fi rst time since Febru-
ary 2014 while facing ques-
tions about the health of star
freshman point guard Cole
Anthony along with fellow
starter Leaky Black.
The Terrapins (10-1) on
Thursday visit Seton Hall,
which was ranked 12th in the
preseason but fell out of the
poll after losses to Iowa State
and Rutgers. The Pirates are
banged up, too, with presea-
son AP All-American Myles
Powell leaving the Rut-
gers loss with a concussion
a game after starter Sandro
Mamukelashvili went down
with a broken wrist at Iowa
State.
The Flyers (8-1) face a
Colorado team that spent fi ve
weeks in the poll before exit-
ing Monday.
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