Duke basketball is back in the top 20 following last week’s big-time victory.
On Christmas Day, Duke basketball rose five spots, its biggest single-week jump this season, and now sits at No. 16 in the latest edition of the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. It marks only the third time that the team bumped its ranking from the previous week.
The Blue Devils (8-3, 0-1 ACC) started the season ranked No. 2 in the nation. Their only game last week saw them defeat then-No. 10 Baylor 78-70 in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Earlier in the month, they lost consecutive road games to Georgia Tech and still-unranked Arkansas, which sent them to a season-low No. 22.
No. 9 UNC and No. 18 Clemson are the other two ACC teams included in this week’s AP Poll, along with Duke.
The top five this week is the same as it was last week, with Purdue at the top, followed by Kansas, Houston, Arizona, and UConn.
The Blue Devils’ final non-conference game of the regular season, a home game against unranked Queens in Cameron Indoor Stadium at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday (The CW), is the next on the schedule for second-year head coach Jon Scheyer of Duke basketball. The Blue Devils host Syracuse, who is not ranked, in Durham three days later.
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