Over at USA TODAY Sports, Alabama moved up to a No. 1 seed, replacing the Tennessee Volunteers in the latest projections from the three-man panel of Eddie Timanus, Erick Smith and Paul Myerberg. The trio see Nate Oats’ team facing projected MAAC champion Marist in a first-round game.

Duke, Auburn, and Alabama lead championship odds with strong potential. Despite setbacks, missing the Final Four could disappoint given their depth and talent.

There are a pair of massive top-10 showdowns this weekend in college basketball, two games that will have a sizable impact on next week's Power Rankings. The first is Tennessee's trip to Auburn on Saturday.

Alabama coach Nate Oats sent a message with the benching of star Mark Sears. Here's what Oats said of his decision to bench Sears vs. LSU:

UConn and Kansas opened the 2024-25 season as the teams with the best odds of winning the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Those two programs were followed by Duke, Alabama, Houston to round out the top five. UConn currently has the 17th-shortest odds (45-1) to win the tournament,

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In one of the most turbulent weekends of the season so far, five of the top ten teams in Friday's Bracketology projected 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket lost. However, when everyone loses, sometimes nobody loses.

Plus, the 6-foot-9, 185-pound five-star, sitting No. 4 overall on the 247Sports 2025 Composite, is set to return to Duke for the Blue Devils' home bout against the archrival UNC Tar Heels on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPN).

Texas Tech made its Top 25 season debut at No. 22 after beating Cincinnati and Oklahoma State to run its Big 12 winning streak to four games. Vanderbilt entered the poll at No. 24 for the first time since Dec. 7, 2015, as the women's team also cracked the poll this week for the first time since 2014.

Despite Iowa State ’s 64-57 loss at then-unranked West Virginia, the Cyclones moved down just one spot. While Alabama, Florida and Tennessee stayed put, Michigan State (16-2) and Houston (14-3) made significant jumps.

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Fresh off another productive week, the Wisconsin men moved up in the latest college basketball rankings. The Badgers are now 17th in both the AP and Coaches Polls, climbing one spot in the AP and two in the Coaches.