THE SIDELINES : Orangemen Top Ranked by AP

Syracuse remained atop the Associated Press college basketball poll today, with Kansas making the jump from fourth to second.

The Orangemen got 48 of the 63 first-place votes and 1,535 points from the nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters after winning four games in its first-ever week as a regular-season No. 1.

Syracuse beat Rutgers and Cornell and won the Carrier Classic with wins over Virginia Commonwealth and Temple and is 4-0.

Kansas (6-0) had 17 first-place votes and 1,443 points, 18 more than Georgetown (3-0), which remained No. 3 and had five first-place votes.

Missouri (4-0) and UNLV (3-1) rounded out the top five and were followed by Duke, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana State and Arkansas.

Missouri had a first-place vote and 1,325 points, 60 more than the Runnin’ Rebels as both teams improved one place from last week. Duke (3-0), which has broken the 100-point mark every time out this year, had 1,246, and the Fighting Illini (2-0) had 1,139. Each also moved up one place.

Michigan (3-1) moved from 10th to eighth with 1,080, 29 more than LSU (2-1), which stayed ninth. Arkansas (3-0), which had two first-place votes, moved from 11th to 10th with 1,031 points.