The Duke Blue Devils led an unchanged top 10 — in order for the rest: Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia, Gonzaga, Michigan State, Kansas, Texas Tech, Virginia Tech and Nevada — in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll (released in the afternoon of Jan. 14) and spent their sixth week on top this season. However, Duke’s […]
The top four in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll (released on Jan. 7) remained unchanged for the third straight week — No. 1 Duke, No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Tennessee and No. 4 Virginia. The rest of the poll, however, underwent major changes after three top-10 teams lost. No. 5 Gonzaga and No. […]
The Duke Blue Devils sat atop an unchanged top 12 in the latest Associated Press poll released on Dec. 31. Kentucky was the week’s highest-ranked climber, rising three spots to No. 13 after a win at rival Louisville. Kentucky has won three straight games against power-conference teams, including a win against Utah and a ranked […]
Kansas, Duke and Tennessee were 1-2-3 for the second straight week atop the Associated Press Top 25 poll. At No. 3, Tennessee is at its highest spot since reaching No. 1 in February 2008. Michigan (at No. 4, its highest ranking since February 2013) and Virginia rounds out the top five. The rest of the […]
Kansas returns atop the Associated Press Top 25 poll (released on Dec. 10). Duke moved up a spot to No. 2. The No. 3 spot belongs to Tennessee after earning its biggest win in four years under coach Rick Barnes by defeating now-No. 4 Gonzaga 76-73 in Phoenix at the Colangelo Classic on Dec. 9. […]
The top four on this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll (released on Dec. 3) — No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 2 Kansas, No. 3 Duke and No. 4 Virginia — remained unchanged from last week. The Michigan Wolverines (8-0, 1-0 Big Ten) have made a rapid rise to reach No. 5 after their latest impressive […]
An 89-87 win in the Maui Invitational championship game over previously-undefeated Duke on Thanksgiving Eve put Gonzaga atop this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll (released on Nov. 26). This is the university’s the third time at No. 1 in its history, following stints atop the poll in 2016-17, when they reached the national title […]
The No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide (11-0, 7-0 SEC) wrap up their 2018 home schedule against the Auburn Tigers (7-4, 3-4) in the annual Iron Bowl (Nov. 24 at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS). Alabama’s only loss last season came against Auburn, a 26-14 decision Nov. 25, 2017. The Tigers complete their season and await […]
The Duke Blue Devils, behind star freshmen RJ Barrett, Zion Williamson and Cam Reddish, jumped from fourth to first on the Associated Press Top 25 poll on Monday, Nov. 12 in the first regular-season poll, leapfrogging Kansas at the top after a blowout 34-point win against then-No. 2 Kentucky in the Champions Classic to open […]
