Olympic Fan
01-09-2012, 04:29 PM
The new polls are out today (Jan. 9) and Duke dropped three places in the coaches -- from No. 3 to No. 6 -- and three places in the AP -- from No. 5 to No. 8.
Duke has now been in the top 10 of the AP poll for 84 straight weeks, since ranking No. 13 on Nov. 19,2007. That's five-plus years. Nobody else has maintained a top 10 streak for even two years in a row.
By my count that's the second longest such streak in NCAA history, but well behind UCLA's streak of 154 straight top 10 rankings (between the preseason poll in 1966-67 and the Jan. 27, 1976 poll).
The top of this week's polls look alike -- No. 1 Syracuse, No. 2 Kentucky, No. 3 UNC, No. 4 Baylor and No. 5 Ohio State. The AP has Michigan State at No. 6 and Indiana at No. 8 ... Duke ranks ahead of the last two in the coaches poll.
Duke has now been in the top 10 of the AP poll for 84 straight weeks, since ranking No. 13 on Nov. 19,2007. That's five-plus years. Nobody else has maintained a top 10 streak for even two years in a row.
By my count that's the second longest such streak in NCAA history, but well behind UCLA's streak of 154 straight top 10 rankings (between the preseason poll in 1966-67 and the Jan. 27, 1976 poll).
The top of this week's polls look alike -- No. 1 Syracuse, No. 2 Kentucky, No. 3 UNC, No. 4 Baylor and No. 5 Ohio State. The AP has Michigan State at No. 6 and Indiana at No. 8 ... Duke ranks ahead of the last two in the coaches poll.