The Duke basketball program faced one of its most challenging matchups of the 2024 season against the No. 1-ranked Kansas Jayhawks just before Thanksgiving. The contest did not disappoint. Duke battled back from an early deficit and nearly stole the victory,

Cooper Flagg may be the top player in the country, but Kansas is the top-ranked team. And the Jayhawks proved why Tuesday. No. 1 Kansas defeated Flagg and

No. 1 Kansas jumped out of the gates early, then overcame a second-half ejection of All-America center Hunter Dickinson Tuesday for a tense 75-72 win over 11th-ranked Duke Tuesday night. The Jayhawks secured the high-profile win in Las Vegas while limiting Duke's Cooper Flagg to 13 points and forcing the freshman phenom into four turnovers.

Kansas remained solidly entrenched at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday ahead of its showdown with No. 11 Duke in Las Vegas, while a pair of schools from the Magnolia State elbowed their way back into the rankings.

The UConn men's basketball team remains at No. 2 in the AP Top 25 Poll. Kansas, Gonzaga, Auburn, Kentucky, Alabama, Iowa State in top 10.

Feast Week is a time for ranked teams to be tested, and this year's edition has seen some teams already record losses on their résumés, meaning there has been a bit of a shake-up in the Week 3 AP poll.