COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOP 25

Team (Record) Comment

1. Stanford (16-0) Will remain chart-toppers so long as surviving Beatles don’t form anthology squad.

2. Duke (16-1) Tobacco road smoke: 23 consecutive wins over schools from North Carolina.

3. Michigan State (14-1) Hutson’s pneumonia gives Coach Izzo the chills.

4. Kansas (14-1) Optometrist restores vision to Jeff Boschee’s shooting eye.

5. North Carolina (14-2) Could have used that win over Marquette in 1977.

6. Florida (11-3) Gators lose some snap without Wright, Dupay and Hamilton.

7. Georgetown (16-0) Can you top this? The 1984-85 team started 18-0.

8. Syracuse (15-1) Six-game winning streak warms a cold college town’s cockles.

9. Tennessee (16-2) Best start in school history earns . . . the football coach a new contract?

10. Wake Forest (13-3) Life was a dream before conference games began.

11. Illinois (14-4) Marcus Griffin makes medical journals with self-diagnosis of “sore booty maximus.”

12. Maryland (13-4) Missed game vs. Wake Forest because of Crabcakes Anonymous meeting.

13. Virginia (12-3) Obviously unaware of the phrase “put up your Dukes.”

14. Alabama (14-2) Coach Mark Gottfried turns 37 on Saturday, if you care to drop a card.

15. Arizona (10-5) Nice to see Lute Olson back in the Wildcat lineup.

16. Wisconsin (11-4) Bounced back from Michigan State loss with big win over Iowa.

17. Iowa (14-3) Alford says loss to Wisconsin is not a season-Recker.

18. Mississippi (14-3) Missed game vs. Alabama because of energy crisis and “rolling blackout.”

19. Iowa State (14-3) Coach replays Missouri loss in his head four (over) times.

20. Seton Hall (11-5) Clubhouse report: Only black eye suffered this week was loss to Georgetown.

21. Fresno State (16-2) One of these days, Tark’s team might even crack a national poll.

22. USC (12-3) Las Vegas stringer reports no USC weddings this week.

23. UCLA (9-4) “Mr. Dalis, Bob Knight is on line 2 to discuss generalities.”

24. Kentucky (10-5) Governor calls off state emergency after big win over Tennessee.

25. Texas (14-3) Coach happy he doesn’t have to deal with Simms-Applewhite mess.