LAWRENCE, Kan. — Well, it finally happened. For the first time since the 2020-21 season, Kansas basketball is out of the Associated Press Top 25. The Jayhawks had been hanging around for 80 straight weeks—second only to Houston—but that streak is officially over.

A month-long slide for the Kansas Jayhawks reached its nadir with consecutive losses to Utah and BYU last week, and now Bill Self's program finds itself outside the AP Top 25 poll for the first time in years.