Duke went to n ° 1 of the top 25 of the male masculine basketball poll for the first time since week 4 of the 2021-22 season on Monday and for the first time under the third year coach Jon Scheyer. The rise of the Blue Devils supplanted Auburn, which spent eight consecutive weeks in No. 1, for first place. The tigers slipped to No. 3 after winning two defeats during their two outings this week in Texas A&M and Alabama to precipitate the big change. Houston went to No. 2.
Duke had been classified n ° 2 the previous two weeks and for five of the last seven weeks waited in the shadows for an Auburn potential. However, D’Auburn lost against Florida on February 8, Duke also lost the same day against Clemson, who kept Auburn in n ° 1 in the next survey with a stripping of his unanimous status by voters.
The Auburn two-game slide this week came while Duke drove with ease in the post-season game with wake Forest victories and North Carolina by 33 and 13 points, respectively. He enters the ACC tournament this week after winning 24 of his last 25 games, culminating with the movement on Monday a place in n ° 1 in the ranking.
The week from 0 to 2 pushed Auburn from Place N ° 1 to No. 3 and broke a sequence of 14 consecutive weeks to be classified in the first two of the AP survey. The Tigers extended a sequence of eighteen weeks of classification in the first five dating from the pre-season survey when it was n ° 11. No other team was classified in the top five for each survey in season this season, and the last teams to do so-Purdue and Uconn in 2023-24-were the last two teams standing in the NCAA championship last season.
AP TOP 25
1. Duke (52)
2. Houston (5)
3. Auburn (4)
4. Florida
5. Alabama
6. St. John’s
7. Michigan condition
8. Tennessee
9. Texas Tech
10. Clemson
11. Maryland
12. St. iowa
13. Louisville
14. Texas A & M
15. Kentucky
16. Memphis
17. Byu
18. Wisconsin
19. Saint Mary’s
20. Purdue
21. Missouri
22. Michigan
23. Oregon
24. Illinois
25. Marquette
Also receive votes: Drake 103, Arizona 82, UCLA 52, UC San Diego 39, Uconn 38, Gonzaga 28, New Mexico 20, Creighton 18, Mississippi 17, VCU 6, High Point 4, Kansas 3, Akron 2, McNese St. 1, Xavier
Scheyer a Duke at N ° 1 for the first time
Mike Krzyżewski led Duke to his first n ° 1 ranking of his mandate during the week 15 of the 1985-86 season – six seasons after taking the post in 1980. His successor, Jon Scheyer, did it during his third season, with Monday’s movement for Duke at No. 1.
St. John’s increases in playoffs
Just when the dream season for St. John’s could not improve, this is the case. The Johnnies stayed at n ° 6 in the last survey, but threaten to enter the top five, which has not occurred since January 1991, after having equaled a record for the victories in regular season with 27 this week after a victory against Marquette at the Buzzer.
Houston jumps Auburn
In one of the biggest surprises in the last survey, Auburn fell not a place but two, while Duke and Houston have passed the tigers. Duke’s jump was overwhelming, but Houston’s was by a narrow margin, with 1,427 points in total for 1,407 from Auburn. Houston also obtained five votes in first place out of the four in Auburn.
