Purdue moved back to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll Monday ahead of Houston, which spent a single week there after leapfrogging the Boilermakers.

It's hardly a two-team race for the top, though. UConn, Arizona and Duke also got No. 1 votes from the 61-member media panel in a poll that also saw No. 6 Louisville and No. 8 Illinois jump into the top 10.

Iowa State, who last played Nov. 10 against Mississippi State, stayed at No. 16. The 3-0 Cyclones host Stonehill College on Monday night.

Iowa, meanwhile, is slowly regaining votes in the poll. The 3-0 Hawkeyes, who got 6 votes in the season-opening poll, received 1 vote last week and three in the new poll. They host Southeast Missouri on Tuesday night.

The Boilermakers got 44 first-place votes after an impressive wee

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