Auburn continues to reside in the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll after surviving a scare Saturday against Tennessee.

Kentucky wasn't so fortunate. The Wildcats lost back-to-back games to Alabama and Vanderbilt, the second prompting yet another court storming at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee.

UK fell from ninth to 12th in the newest poll as a result of its tough week.

Week 13 AP Top 25 Poll

1. Auburn

2. Duke

3. Iowa State

4. Alabama

5. Florida

6. Houston

7. Michigan State

8. Tennessee

9. Marquette

10. Purdue

11. Kansas

12. Kentucky

13. Texas A&M

14. Mississippi State

15. St. John's

16. Oregon

17. Wisconsin

18. Illinois

19. Memphis

20. Missouri

21. Louisville

22. Texas Tech

23. Ole Miss

24. Vanderbilt

25. UConn

Auburn guard Miles Kelly only had six points in his 34 points on the court, but nobody hit a bigger shot inside Neville Arena. The senior drilled a long-range jumper from the corner with 30.5 seconds on the clock to put the Tigers ahead 52-51.

Vols head coach Rick Barnes decided against calling a timeout and watched as forward Igor Miličić Jr. challenged Auburn's Chaney Johnson at the basket. Johnson denied Miličić, with Johni Broome grabbing the defensive rebound.

Tennessee had one more chance to win the game after Auburn's Tahaad Pettiford sank one of his two free throws, but Zakai Zeigler's three-point attempt from the corner clanked off the rim.

"I'm sure that wasn't a very pretty game on national television, because it was so difficult to score," Tigers head coach Bruce Pearl told reporters after the game. "I knew it was gonna be low-scoring. I knew that offense was gonna be difficult. But Rick Barnes' teams play the right way. They play the right way. They don't take possessions off. They don't beat themselves."

That wasn't even the most dramatic contest to unfold during Saturday's slate.

Kansas and Houston needed two overtimes to determine a winner, with the Cougars sealing a 92-86 victory on the road.

Guard Milos Uzan and forward J'Wan Roberts combined to score four points inside the final 17 seconds of regulation to force the first overtime. Another OT was required after a frenzied sequence saw Cougars guard Emanuel Sharp hit a three, Uzan steal the ensuing inbounds pass and then guard Mylik Wilson tie it up with another three.

Houston pulled away in the second overtime period.

Michigan State was one of the big winners from last week as the Spartans are now two games clear in first place in the Big Ten standings.

Purdue, Wisconsin and Illinois were all upset by unranked foes, with the Fighting Illini getting hammered by 21 points by Maryland. The Boilermakers then did Michigan State a favor by beating Michigan, which now has two losses in conference play.

At the very least, the Spartans should be able to maintain their current cushion. They host Minnesota on Tuesday and then head to Los Angeles for a matchup with USC on Saturday.

The battle for the SEC title, on the other hand, could look a little different this time next Sunday.

Tennessee plays Kentucky on Tuesday night and then Kentucky on Saturday. Auburn should be able to get past LSU, in which case the Tigers will put a perfect SEC record on the line against Ole Miss in Oxford. Having come up short against Kentucky, Auburn and Tennessee, Mississippi State knows beating Alabama will put the Bulldogs right back in the thick of things.