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There is another new team atop the college basketball mountain as March approaches. Duke<\/a>, fresh off of its win against former No. 1 Michigan<\/a>, ascended to the top spot in this week’s Coaches Poll.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Wolverines didn’t fall too far, as they checked in at No. 3\u00a0The Blue Devils, meanwhile, jumped past Michigan and Houston<\/a>, which lost a pair of battles against top-10 opponents last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n Duke, led by star freshman Cameron Boozer, who scored 18 points in the win against Michigan, is pushing for the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Devils have only lost once (to top rival North Carolina<\/a>) since the start of the new year and nine of their last 10 wins have come by at least 13 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n Elsewhere, reigning national champion Florida<\/a> continues to dominate in SEC play after struggling a bit against a tough non-conference slate. The Gators, who returned to the top 10 by leaping four spots to No. 7 are running away with the conference race at 12-2 in league play. The next three teams — Alabama<\/a>, Arkansas<\/a> and Tennessee<\/a> — are all tied at 10-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n Florida is riding a seven-game winning streak. The Gators boast an average margin of victory of 21.6 points per game in that span.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here’s a look at the Feb. 23 Coaches Poll in its entirety.<\/p>\n First-place votes in parenthesis<\/p>\n Coaches Poll\u00a0Duke (27)\u00a0Arizona<\/a> (4)MichiganHoustonIowa State<\/a>UConn<\/a>FloridaPurdue<\/a>GonzagaNebraska<\/a>Illinois<\/a>Virginia<\/a>\u00a0Michigan State<\/a>\u00a0Kansas\u00a0St. John’s\u00a0Texas Tech<\/a>ArkansasAlabamaNorth CarolinaLouisville<\/a>Vanderbilt<\/a>TennesseeBYU<\/a>\u00a0Saint LouisMiami (OH)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Others receiving votes:\u00a0Wisconsin<\/a> 35; Villanova<\/a> 25; Georgia<\/a> 18; Utah State<\/a> 7; Iowa<\/a> 6; Saint Mary’s 5; Miami (FL)<\/a> 5; Clemson<\/a> 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images There is another new team atop the college basketball mountain as March approaches. Duke, fresh off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7998,598,7,63929,7150,63931,217,37927,5486,691,950,6721,2811,7367,1043,231,772,61018,1544,63930,1770,1797,1774,3471],"class_list":["post-620357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-basketball","tag-cbb-rankings","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-coaches-poll","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-rankings","tag-college-football","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-florida-gators","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-houston-cougars","tag-illinois-fighting-illini","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-basketball-rankings","tag-ncaab","tag-ncaab-rankings","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-virginia-cavaliers","tag-wisconsin-badgers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620357","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=620357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}