Duke ended Auburn’s eight-week stay at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll on Monday, while the Tigers ...

This is the first time since the first week of the season that I’ll be voting for someone other than Auburn at No. 1 on my AP ...

Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl got his first career victory over Alabama. It foreshadowed what was to come.

Illinois is feeling better about its NCAA Tournament chances after closing its regular season with three victories.

Duke men’s basketball has climbed to the No. 1 spot for the first time this season in this week’s AP Poll, following two ...

Mark Sears hit a game-winning floater as time expired, and No.

The surging Illini have won three in a row, including ranked foes Michigan and Purdue, with the Big Ten tournament up next ...

with a considerably higher rating than Alabama, which is fifth. For context, their 3.5-point difference is the same gap that separates the Crimson Tide from Illinois. Need more metrics? Auburn has ...

Twenty years later, Pearl is coaching Auburn against Alabama once again ... Eventually, they lost to Illinois, which fell six points shy of a national championship that year, in the Sweet Sixteen.

And as high as I am on Illinois, the Fighting Illini are still ... Stylistically, this will look like the polar opposite of Auburn-Alabama from earlier in the day. Brian Dutcher has another ...