The Arizona Wildcats are back in the Top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 poll at No. 9.
Arizona was ranked No. 2 entering the Battle 4 Atlantis but lost three games in the Thanksgiving week event to drop completely out of the poll. They didn't return until Dec. 11, when they were ranked No. 23 after wins at UNLV and over Alabama at home.
Arizona has mostly floated around the teens since then.
But while ESPN's Bracketology moved Arizona to a No. 3 seed in the West, the Wildcats didn't budge much in the main power ratings. UA's RPI is 14, its Sagarin rating is 15 and its Kenpom rating is 27. CBS still projects UA as a No. 4 seed.
ASU remained in the AP poll at No. 25 despite being 4-5 in the Pac-12 while USC remained unranked. The Trojans have won six straight games and are 8-2 in the Pac-12, and 17-6 overall.
Dusan Ristic appears to have a good chance to be named Pac-12 Player of the Week later Monday, after UA nominated him following a week in which he averaged 19.0 points and 7.5 rebounds while shooting 84.2 percent from the field in wins over Colorado and Utah.
His top competition for the award could be UCLA's Aaron Holiday, who averaged 21 points and seven assists while shooting 52.6 percent in the Bruins' home wins over Cal and Stanford. In addition, USC's Jonah Mathews averaged 17.0 points and hit 8 of 11 3-pointers in the Trojans' sweep of the Bay area schools.
ICYMI, Chance Comanche had a career-high 33 points on 15-for-16 shooting for Memphis on Saturday.Β
