College Basketball

The top five spots in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll remained the same. The rest of the AP Top 25 was a big jumble.  Houston was No. 1 for the second straight week in the poll released Monday, receiving 49 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel. No. 2 Alabama had five first-place votes and No. 3 Kansas received eight.  UCLA and Purdue rounded out the top five.  After a week of upsets that saw 15 ranked teams lose, South Carolina remained the lone unbeaten school.  The Gamecocks ran their streak to 36 consecutive weeks atop the Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, matching Louisiana Tech for the second-longest run in the history of the poll, which dates to 1976.  South Carolina (29-0) finished the regular season unbeaten and was back to being a unanimous choice at No. 1 in the national media poll released Monday. The Gamecocks trail only UConn (51 weeks) for the longest consecutive streak atop the Top 25.