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Houston remained atop the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the third consecutive week Monday while a couple of the game's traditional blue bloods made big jumps as they peak just in time for postseason play.
The Cougars received 52 of 62 first-place votes from a national media panel after a week in which they beat UCF and routed then-No. 14 Kansas to clinch the Big 12 regular-season title in their first year in the league. The three straight weeks Houston has spent at No.