{"id":163613,"date":"2026-02-21T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163613\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:19:18","slug":"college-basketball-power-rankings-florida-up-to-no-2-just-behind-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163613\/","title":{"rendered":"College basketball power rankings: Florida up to No. 2, just behind Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three of the top five teams in last week’s Power Rankings — Kansas<\/a>, Arizona<\/a> and Houston<\/a> — suffered at least one loss this week, setting up for a major shakeup in today’s refreshed rankings. The result: Michigan<\/a>, the title favorite, and Florida<\/a>, the reigning title winner, are No. 1 and No. 2 in this week’s updated rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s a familiar spot for Michigan after supplanting Arizona at No. 1 a week ago, but an unfamiliar spot for Florida, which has not been higher than No. 4 in the Power Rankings all season until today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Gators had to earn their ranking the hard way after pinning their own backs against the wall to start the season. They began the year with a 5-4 record, but they have since won 15 of their last 17 games — including six-straight — to wrest control of the SEC and acquit themselves worthy of defending their title.<\/p>\n

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College basketball rankings: Rivals Indiana, Purdue square off in compelling Friday night showdown<\/p>\n

\n Gary Parrish <\/p>\n

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Other changes this week include a move from outside the top five to inside the top five for St. John’s<\/a>, Duke<\/a> and Iowa State<\/a>, a precipitous fall for Arizona and an introduction to Miami<\/a> (Florida) as it makes its first appearance of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let’s get to the rankings.<\/p>\n

College Basketball Power Rankings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports graphic Three of the top five teams in last week’s Power Rankings — Kansas, Arizona and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2531,2527,2532,2534,4687,2536,52053,6786,8294,63806,24887,2513,2517,2516,28,2530,30,29,2535,2514,2523,6795,2525,48197,48195,2524,2529,73648,2515,78228,56731,4641,26238,7642,78229,2520,25390,10088,4646,4676,23337,10481,38056,2519,73646,69627,73644,6759,2518,4692,6794,2526,4671,4682,6755,2521],"class_list":{"0":"post-163613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","9":"tag-arizona-wildcats","10":"tag-arkansas-razorbacks","11":"tag-auburn-tigers","12":"tag-brown-bears","13":"tag-byu-cougars","14":"tag-caleb-wilson","15":"tag-clemson-tigers","16":"tag-college-basketball","17":"tag-college-basketball-power-rankings","18":"tag-college-basketball-rankings","19":"tag-connecticut-huskies","20":"tag-creighton-bluejays","21":"tag-duke-blue-devils","22":"tag-florida","23":"tag-florida-gators","24":"tag-florida-headlines","25":"tag-florida-news","26":"tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","27":"tag-houston-cougars","28":"tag-illinois-fighting-illini","29":"tag-indiana-hoosiers","30":"tag-iowa-state-cyclones","31":"tag-jaland-lowe","32":"tag-jayden-quaintance","33":"tag-kansas-jayhawks","34":"tag-kentucky-wildcats","35":"tag-la-salle-explorers","36":"tag-louisville-cardinals","37":"tag-loyola-chicago-ramblers","38":"tag-marquette-golden-eagles","39":"tag-miami-fla-hurricanes","40":"tag-miami-ohio-redhawks","41":"tag-michigan","42":"tag-michigan-st-spartans","43":"tag-michigan-wolverines","44":"tag-mikel-brown-jr","45":"tag-nc-state-wolfpack","46":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","47":"tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","48":"tag-ohio-bobcats","49":"tag-ole-miss-rebels","50":"tag-providence-friars","51":"tag-purdue-boilermakers","52":"tag-saint-louis-billikens","53":"tag-san-francisco-dons","54":"tag-santa-clara-broncos","55":"tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","56":"tag-st-johns-red-storm","57":"tag-syracuse-orange","58":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs","59":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","60":"tag-usc-trojans","61":"tag-virginia-cavaliers","62":"tag-virginia-tech-hokies","63":"tag-wisconsin-badgers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}