Duke Still No. 1 in AP Poll Despite Loss
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-- Even with a loss, Duke is still No. 1. Duke led the AP women's basketball poll for the eighth straight week on Monday, holding on by a solid margin despite losing for the first time. Montana joined at No. 25 as the only newcomer, its first national ranking in 13 years.
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Illinois and Kansas were ranked 1-2 in The Associated Press' college basketball poll Monday for the seventh straight week, the longest such run in 6 years.
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Auburn caught Oklahoma in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday, creating a tie for second place behind No. 1 Southern California. It's the just the second tie for No. 2 in the history of the AP media poll. The other was Nov. 3, 1991, when Miami and Washington were tied behind No. 1 Florida State.
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Maryland, which beat Duke on Saturday to become the first ACC team to sweep the regular season series from the Blue Devils in 10 years, moved back into the AP's Top 25 at 22nd.
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North Carolina's overtime win at Clemson kept the Tar Heels unbeaten and the top of the Associated Press' college basketball poll unchanged Monday.
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The Crimson Tide jumped into The Associated Press poll Sunday at No. 16, its first time in the rankings since the final poll of the 2005 season.
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After nearly a four-year absence, Connecticut is back at No. 1. The Huskies received 49 of the 50 first-place votes Monday in The Associated Press poll after being ranked second all season. Tennessee had been No. 1 since the preseason poll, but lost to Stanford 73-69 in overtime Saturday night.
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Illinois' eighth consecutive week as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press' college basketball poll was its first without Kansas as No. 2.
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The defending champs are slipping and the Colonials are rising. Maryland, which led the AP women's basketball poll for the first 10 weeks this season, fell two more places to sixth Monday after losing to an unranked opponent for the first time in two years.
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Utah took advantage of several losses by Top 25 teams and squeezed back into The Associated Press women's basketball poll Monday, while LSU remained a unanimous No. 1.
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-- Memphis is still the only unbeaten and still a unanimous No. 1. The Tigers (23-0), easy winners over SMU and Central Florida last week, were a runaway choice at the top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll for a second straight week Monday.
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Duke's Top 25 streak is over. Saddled by its first four-game losing skid in 11 years, Duke fell out of The Associated Press poll Monday for the first time since the end of the 1995-96 season. The Blue Devils had been in the media poll for 200 straight weeks &#151; the second longest streak behind UCLA.
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A week after losing some support as the No. 1 team, Southern California got it right back. Top-ranked USC received 52 first-place votes, four more than last week, and 1,610 points in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday. In the previous poll, Southern Cal lost three first-place votes.
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Duke had little trouble staying unbeaten while opening Atlantic Coast Conference tournament play. Things figure to get a little tougher the rest of the way.
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J.J. Redick scored a season-high 31 points and No. 4 Duke remained unbeaten with an 88-56 victory over Florida State on Saturday.
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Illinois was No. 1 in The Associated Press' college basketball poll Monday for a second straight week, the school's longest run ever at the top of the rankings.
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Lindsey Harding scored 21 points and No. 1 Duke kept rolling toward a showdown with No. 2 North Carolina next week by withstanding a challenge from Virginia in the second half of a 76-61 victory Friday night.