Duke ended Auburn's eight-week reign at No. 1 and reached the top of the Associated Press Top 25 poll Monday for the first time since November 2021. The Blue Devils (28-3) earned 52 of the 61 first-place votes to lead the rankings for the first time since Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski's final season.

Duke ascended to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the first time since Week 4 of the 2021-22 season on Monday and for the first time under third-year coach Jon Scheyer. The Blue Devils' rise supplanted Auburn,

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Duke men’s basketball has climbed to the No. 1 spot for the first time this season in this week’s AP Poll, following two secure victories and chaos in other conferences. The Blue Zone is here to break down the drastic shifts in the rankings and what they mean heading into conference tournaments.

There's a new No. 1 in the updated Coaches Poll. Here are the latest updates to the Coaches and AP Top 25 polls in college basketball:

Duke is poised to snap Auburn's eight-week stint at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll Monday after Auburn went 0-2 for the first time in a week since last January and Duke secured a perfect week highlighted by a road win over rival North Carolina on Saturday to extend its winning streak to eight games.

Illinois returns to AP Top 25 basketball poll with wins over Michigan and Purdue; Duke takes over top spot after Auburn's losses;

In Sunday's win, Ashlon Jackson and Oluchi Okananwa eached scored 22 points. For Jackson, that's just another day, but for Okananwa, it was a season-high and also her third game in a row scoring in double figures. One thing this Duke team has going for it is that it's incredibly deep, which helped keep things fresh

Between two Duke victories and a pair of Auburn losses in the last seven days, there's a new No. 1 in the AP Top 25 Men's Basketball Poll.