Florida regains top spot in AP poll

Florida is back at No. 1 in The Associated Press' college basketball poll for the second time this season. Virginia Tech is in the Top 25 for the first time in more than a decade.

The Gators regained the top basketball ranking a week after Florida's football team won the national championship with a 41-14 rout of Ohio State.

Florida, the defending national basketball champs, moved up from second on Monday, following North Carolina's loss to Virginia Tech over the weekend. The Gators were on top of the preseason rankings and the first poll of the regular season before falling as low as seventh six weeks ago.

"This time of year in college basketball, the No. 1 is going to rotate like the yellow jersey in bike riding with teams handing it off," Florida coach Billy Donovan said Monday. "We're proud that over the last four, five years we have had a chance to get to No. 1 on different occasions, but it doesn't mean a lot right now.

-- AP