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Tuesday, November 28, 2000
Duke gets all but one first-place vote



Arizona no longer is unbeaten, which made Duke practically unanimous.

The Blue Devils received all but one first-place vote and tightened their grip on the top spot in the ESPN/USA Today college basketball coaches' poll released Sunday night.

Last week, Duke received 16 first-place votes and Arizona got the other 15. But Arizona's 72-69 loss to unranked Purdue on Saturday dumped the Wildcats (3-1) from second to fifth.

Duke (5-0) won a pair of games to take the Preseason NIT and crushed Army. It received 30 first-place votes and 774 points from a panel of Division I coaches.

Michigan State (3-0) climbed one spot to second with 701 points. Stanford (4-0), which won three games in the Puerto Rico Shootout, jumped from fifth to third, receiving the remaining first-place vote and 691 points.

Kansas (5-0) held fourth ahead of Arizona. North Carolina (3-0), Tennessee (3-0), Illinois (4-1), Seton Hall (2-0) and Florida (1-0) complete the top 10.

There was plenty of shuffling in the second 10. Notre Dame is 11th and is followed by Wake Forest (4-0) as both schools jumped four rungs. Oklahoma (4-0) climbed from 19th to 13th and Maryland (1-2), which lost twice in Maui, dropped from sixth to 14th.

Temple (15), which lost to Duke by two points in the final of the Preseason NIT, moved up 10 spots to 15th. Connecticut (3-1), Cincinnati (2-1), Southern California (3-0), Syracuse (4-0) and Utah (3-1) complete the top 20.

Connecticut and Cincinnati fell four spots each and USC moved up five spots. Syracuse was not ranked last week and Utah fell from 14th.

St. John's (3-1) moved from 24th to 21st and is followed by new entry Virginia (3-0), Wisconsin (1-1), Arkansas (3-1) and DePaul (3-1).

Perennial powers UCLA (2-2) and Kentucky (1-3) dropped out of the rankings.
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