{"id":580194,"date":"2026-02-03T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/580194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:35:17","slug":"where-does-duke-basketball-rank-in-latest-march-madness-bracketology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/580194\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does Duke basketball rank in latest March Madness bracketology?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke basketball<\/a> continues to build its r\u00e9sum\u00e9 heading into March.<\/p>\n

Ranked No. 4 in both the in the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll and AP poll<\/a>, the Blue Devils (20-1, 9-0 ACC) went a perfect 8-0 through the month of January and look to continue that success in February. Duke<\/a> remains as a projected No. 1 seed in most bracketology forecasts.<\/p>\n

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Coming off wins over Louisville (83-52)<\/a> and Virginia Tech (72-58)<\/a> last week, Duke returns home to host Boston College <\/a>on Tuesday, Feb. 3 before heading to Chapel Hill to take on UNC in this year’s first installment of the Tobacco Road rivalry on Saturday, Feb. 7.<\/p>\n

Here’s a breakdown of the latest bracketology and NCAA Tournament projections for the Blue Devils through the first week of February.<\/p>\n

Duke basketball NCAA Tournament resume<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils are currently No. 1 in the NET (NCAA Evaluation Tool) rankings. Duke is 9-1 in Quadrant 1 games, its lone loss coming to Texas Tech on Dec. 20, and is 11-0 against teams in Quadrants 2-4. Duke and Arizona are the lone teams in the country with nine Quad 1 wins.<\/p>\n

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Duke basketball NCAA tournament projections, latest bracketology<\/p>\n

Here are the latest NCAA Tournament projections as of Tuesday, Feb. 3:<\/p>\n

ESPN: Joe Lunardi has the Blue Devils listed as a No. 1 seed in the East Region, starting things off in Greenville against projected No. 16 seed Long Island.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports: CBS projections have Duke as a No. 1 seed in the East Region against projected No. 16 seed LIU.<\/p>\n

USA TODAY: USA Today projections<\/a> have Duke as a No. 1 seed in the East Region, starting things off in Philadelphia against projected No. 16 seed Navy.<\/p>\n

On3: These projections have Duke as a No. 1 seed in the East Region starting things off in Greenville against projected No. 16 seed 16 St. Peter\u2019s\/NJIT.<\/p>\n

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EvanMiya: The Blue Devils rank No. 3 in resume quality, projected to be a No. 1-2 seed.<\/p>\n

Torvik: According to Bart Torvik’s T-Ranketology Teamcast, Duke is projected to be a No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n

Bracket Matrix: The Bracket Matrix formula considers the preeminent bracketology projections from across the web and averages them out to create a composite 68-team field. Of the 58 brackets tracked by the site, Duke is listed as a No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n

Anna Snyder covers Duke for The Fayetteville Observer as part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at asnyder@usatodayco.com\u00a0or follow her @annaesnydr\u00a0on X, formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: Where Duke basketball ranks in latest March Madness bracketology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke basketball continues to build its r\u00e9sum\u00e9 heading into March. Ranked No. 4 in both the in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,816,323,217,699,78316,78318,231,772,78317,1544,1559,12639],"class_list":["post-580194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-blue-devils","tag-boston-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-duke-basketball","tag-duke-basketball-ncaa-tournament","tag-latest-bracketology","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-tournament-projections","tag-ncaab","tag-the-blue-devils","tag-virginia-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116008381654991684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}