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Weekly Polls: Indiana Pushes into the Top 25

For the second straight week, a new Big Ten team enters the human polls.

Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports

Last week, Iowa was the new Big Ten team to enter the top 25. This week, it's Indiana. After a tight home win against Wisconsin and a beatdown of the Buckeyes, the Hoosiers are 14-3 and own a perfect 4-0 Big Ten record, albeit against a relatively soft schedule. Nonetheless, the coaches have rewarded them by voting them into the #25 spot of their poll, just one place behind #24 Purdue, who fell in the polls for the second straight week after a head-scratching loss at Illinois on Sunday.

Maryland remains the highest-ranked team in the Big Ten at #3 in both polls, while Michigan State moved up one spot to #4 after Virginia had a week on the road that it'd like to forget. Iowa continued to rise in the polls after its 77-66 win against Nebraska last Tuesday, rising three spots to #16 in the AP poll and four spots to #19 in the Coaches poll.

Michigan, which had two votes in the AP poll last week, received none this week.

Here are the full AP and Coaches polls for January 11, 2016:

AP Poll

RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Kansas Jayhawks (63) 14-1 1,621
2 Oklahoma Sooners (1) 13-1 1,551
3 Maryland Terrapins 15-1 1,472
4 Michigan State Spartans (1) 16-1 1,446
5 North Carolina Tar Heels 15-2 1,371
6 Villanova Wildcats 14-2 1,246
7 Xavier Musketeers 14-1 1,200
8 Miami-Florida Hurricanes 13-1 1,139
9 Duke Blue Devils 14-2 1,100
10 SMU Mustangs 15-0 1,040
11 West Virginia Mountaineers 14-1 867
12 Providence Friars 14-2 862
13 Virginia Cavaliers 12-3 818
14 Kentucky Wildcats 12-3 698
15 Texas A&M Aggies 13-2 668
16 Iowa Hawkeyes 12-3 656
17 Iowa State Cyclones 12-3 555
18 Arizona Wildcats 13-3 537
19 South Carolina Gamecocks 15-0 527
20 Pittsburgh Panthers 14-1 334
21 Louisville Cardinals 13-3 330
22 Baylor Bears 12-3 325
23 Butler Bulldogs 12-4 302
24 Purdue Boilermakers 14-3 145
25 Gonzaga Bulldogs 13-3 101
Others receiving votes: USC 79, Indiana 59, UCLA 21, Utah 10, Texas Tech 10, Saint Mary's 8, Wichita St 7, Valparaiso 6, Oregon 6, Hawaii 4, St Bonaventure 1, Oregon State 1, Akron 1, Dayton 1

USA Today Coaches Poll

RANK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Kansas (32) 14-1 800
2 Oklahoma 13-1 743
3 Maryland 15-1 742
4 Michigan St 16-1 694
5 North Carolina 15-2 673
6 Duke 14-2 596
7 Villanova 14-2 557
8 Xavier 14-1 555
9 Miami-Florida 13-1 551
10 West Virginia 14-1 477
11 Virginia 12-3 426
12 Providence 14-2 400
13 Kentucky 12-3 393
14 Texas A&M 13-2 383
15 South Carolina 15-0 361
16 Arizona 13-3 337
17 Pittsburgh 14-1 263
18 Iowa St. 12-3 253
19 Iowa 12-3 226
20 Louisville 13-3 205
21 Gonzaga 13-3 173
22 Baylor 12-3 156
23 Butler 12-4 147
24 Purdue 14-3 122
25 Indiana 14-3 38
Others Receiving Votes: Connecticut 34; Oregon 18; Southern California 16; UCLA 12; George Washington 11; California 9; Dayton 5; Houston 5; Valparaiso 5; Washington 3; Texas Tech 3; Cincinnati 2; Arkansas-Little Rock 2; Boise State 1; Hawaii 1; Utah 1; Saint Mary's 1.