NEW YORK (AP) — Purdue is back at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll after its run to the Maui Invitational title.

The Boilermakers beat three teams ranked among the top 11. They replace preseason No. 1 Kansas, which dropped to fifth after losing to Marquette in Maui.

Arizona climbed to second, Marquette is third and UConn is fourth.

Villanova, BYU and Colorado State jumped into the top 20 while Colorado, Arkansas and USC were among those that dropped out of the poll.

SOUTH CAROLINA REMAINS ON TOP

NEW YORK (AP) — Southern Cal has its best ranking in 29 years in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll, moving up to No. 6.

South Carolina remained the unanimous top choice in the AP Top 25. UCLA, Stanford, Iowa and N.C. State round out the top five. The Wolfpack beat then-No. 3 Colorado last week and have gone from unranked in the preseason all the way to the top five.

Colorado fell into a tie for seventh with LSU. Virginia Tech is ninth and Texas is 10th.

Princeton and Marquette entered the rankings while Washington State and Oklahoma dropped out.

PANTHERS FIRE HEAD COACH

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers fired coach Frank Reich with the team off to an NFL-worst 1-10 record in his first year in charge.

The move came a day after the Panthers lost 17-10 to the Tennessee Titans. Owner David Tepper hired Reich to fix one of the league’s worst offenses over the past few seasons and develop Bryce Young, the No. 1 overall draft pick.

Instead, they are assured of a sixth straight losing season since Tepper bought the team in 2018. Special teams coordinator Chris Tabor will take over as interim head coach.

Tabor’s first move was to fire quarterbacks coach Josh McCown and running backs coach Duce Staley, who held a similar position with the Detroit Lions, according to a person familiar with the situation.

TOURNEY’S GROUP PHASE SET TO END

MIAMI (AP) — Say this for the NBA. It will have some drama for the final night of group play in the inaugural In-Season Tournament.

There are eight games left and all potentially have implications on who will advance. All teams play four games in the group stage.

Fourteen teams are already done and the other 16 teams wrap up their group slates on Tuesday. Every group winner will reach the quarterfinals, and the best second-place team from each conference will earn a wild-card spot.

There’s a really good chance that tiebreakers to separate teams will come into play.

The first tiebreaker is head-to-head, and the second is point differential.