The last time ASU was ranked top 10 in basketball: Muhammad Ali was still boxing, MTV hadn't launched yet
The new AP Top 25 was released Monday and while the Arizona Wildcats returned to No. 23, Arizona State is sitting pretty at No. 5, jumping 11 spots after the upset win on the road against Kansas.
The last time ASU was ranked in the top 10 was in 1981. Check out what was relevant in America at the time:
By Justin Spears / Arizona Daily Star
Muhammad Ali was still boxing
Lute Olson was coaching at Iowa
Sean Miller was 12 years old
Raiders beat the Eagles in Super Bowl XV
Earth, Wind & Fire was popular
Ronald Reagan was president
Sandra Day O'Connor became first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court
Farrah Fawcett's poster was in college dorm rooms across the country
The Jeffersons was on TV
Magic Johnson was in second season with the Lakers
Byron Scott was ASU's point guard
Justin Timberlake was born
MTV was still in the works, didn't launch until August
Michael Jackson and Diana Ross were popular soul artists
Gas was $1.35
Walter Cronkite retired from CBS Evening News
Ms. Pac Man was introduced
Superman II hit the big screen
Advanced metrics list the onetime UA bench player as the nation's top defender in terms of win shares.
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