{"id":485235,"date":"2026-02-24T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485235"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:34:31","slug":"duke-back-to-no-1-in-the-ap-poll-after-beating-michigan-scheyers-blue-devils-reclaim-the-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/duke-back-to-no-1-in-the-ap-poll-after-beating-michigan-scheyers-blue-devils-reclaim-the-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke back to No. 1 in the AP Poll after beating Michigan, Scheyer\u2019s Blue Devils reclaim the top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1463\" data-end=\"1667\"><strong data-start=\"1463\" data-end=\"1471\">Duke<\/strong> is back at <strong data-start=\"1483\" data-end=\"1492\">No. 1<\/strong> in the AP men\u2019s basketball poll after a <strong data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1542\">68-63<\/strong> win over <strong data-start=\"1552\" data-end=\"1564\">Michigan<\/strong> in Washington, a result that reshuffled the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1963\"><strong data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1686\">Jon Scheyer\u2019s<\/strong> Blue Devils (25-2) collected <strong data-start=\"1716\" data-end=\"1728\">56 of 61<\/strong> first-place votes, reaching a <strong data-start=\"1759\" data-end=\"1775\">record 148th<\/strong> all-time appearance at No. 1. Duke also enters the week with a nation-leading <strong data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"1876\">12 Quadrant 1 wins<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1881\" data-end=\"1889\">nine<\/strong> victories over AP Top 25 opponents.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1965\" data-end=\"2238\"><strong data-start=\"1965\" data-end=\"1976\">Arizona<\/strong> climbed to No. 2 (five first-place votes), <strong data-start=\"2020\" data-end=\"2032\">Michigan<\/strong> dropped to No. 3, with <strong data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2070\">Iowa State<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2075\" data-end=\"2086\">Houston<\/strong> rounding out the top five. <strong data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2127\">Tennessee<\/strong> debuted at No. 22, while <strong data-start=\"2153\" data-end=\"2164\">Florida<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2169\" data-end=\"2180\">Alabama<\/strong> made notable jumps.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2240\" data-end=\"2324\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-63 win over the Wolverines earns Duke 56 of 61 first-place votes and a record 148th all-time AP No. 1 appearance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":432874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Duke-Blue-Devils.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485235"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485235"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485235"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}