Duke Basketball Ranked in Top 5 of Preseason Polls

The Duke Blue Devils will open up the fifth year of the Jon Scheyer era in a few weeks, hosting Army in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The start of the season is rapidly approaching and the excitement for the new campaign is still high for the Blue Devils.

Scheyer and Duke are coming off another Elite Eight appearance, but it was also another heartbreaking loss. They blew a 17-point lead to UConn, which denied them a return trip to the Final Four.

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But this offseason, Duke reloaded as they brought in the No. 1 recruiting class, a good transfer portal class, and returned some key players from last season’s team. So when the preseason polls were released on Monday, it wasn’t surprising to see the Blue Devils near the top.

Duke was ranked No. 2 in both the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll and the AP Top 25 Poll released on Monday. The Blue Devils are behind only No. 1 Florida in both polls.

Going into this week and the release of the polls, it was pretty evident that Duke was going to be near the top. Both Florida and Duke are considered the two favorites going into this season with Illinois, UConn, and Arizona right behind them.

Let’s start with the coaches poll.

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Duke earned 725 points and 8 first place votes, behind Florida’s 732 votes and 20 first place votes. Below is the full poll:

Rank

Team

Record

PTS

1st

Prev

Chg

Hi/Lo

1

Florida Gators

0-0

732

20

NR

–

1/1

2

Duke Blue Devils

0-0

725

8

NR

–

2/2

3

Illinois Fighting Illini

0-0

683

2

NR

–

3/3

4

Arizona Wildcats

0-0

634

0

NR

–

4/4

5

UConn Huskies

0-0

612

0

NR

–

5/5

6

Michigan State Spartans

0-0

570

0

NR

–

6/6

7

Texas Longhorns

0-0

527

0

NR

–

7/7

8

Houston Cougars

0-0

486

0

NR

–

8/8

9

Tennessee Volunteers

0-0

436

0

NR

–

9/9

10

Virginia Cavaliers

0-0

409

0

NR

–

10/10

11

Louisville Cardinals

0-0

369

0

NR

–

11/11

12

Gonzaga Bulldogs

0-0

361

0

NR

–

12/12

13

Arkansas Razorbacks

0-0

345

0

NR

–

13/13

14

St. John’s Red Storm

0-0

316

0

NR

–

14/14

14

Iowa State Cyclones

0-0

316

0

NR

–

14/14

16

Texas Tech Red Raiders

0-0

314

0

NR

–

16/16

17

Miami (FL) Hurricanes

0-0

292

0

NR

–

17/17

18

Kansas Jayhawks

0-0

286

0

NR

–

18/18

18

Alabama Crimson Tide

0-0

286

0

NR

–

18/18

20

Michigan…

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