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Florida basketball scored a pair of wins this week, with a victory over the Oklahoma Sooners for the first time ever inside the O’Connell Center on Saturday followed by a comeback victory on the road at the LSU Tigers — both coming by double-digit margins. The Gators are now 24-3 overall and 11-3 in Southeastern Conference play with the home stretch of the regular-season schedule just ahead.
However, the continued success of Todd Golden’s team was not enough for the voters in this week’s edition of the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, who demoted the Orange and Blue from second in the nation to third. The Duke Blue Devils now find themselves wedged in an SEC sandwich between the top-ranked Auburn Tigers and Florida.
While the drop feels disrespectful to the Gator Nation, these rankings do not matter as long as Florida keeps winning.
SEC schools in Coaches Poll top 25
The conference is once again represented by eight schools this week — the same number as the last two updates — with four landing among the top six. Auburn held onto its top perch while Florida remained second among SEC schools despite the slip to third. The Tennessee Volunteers rose a spot to fifth while the Alabama Crimson Tide slipped a pair of places to sixth, rounding out the teams in the top 10.
The Texas A&M Aggies fell four spots to No. 11 followed by the Missouri Tigers at No. 16, Kentucky Wildcats at No. 23 and Mississippi State Bulldogs at No. 24 to complete the list of SEC teams in the top 25. The Ole Miss Rebels held the de facto No. 26 spot with 64 votes last week but only earned 15 votes this time around.
Coaches Poll Top 25 Week 16 rankings
Rank
Team
Record
Points
1
Auburn
25-2
748 (28)
2
Duke
24-3
708 (2)
3
Florida
24-3
693
4
Houston
23-4
660
5
Tennessee
22-5
610
6
Alabama
22-5
607
7
St. John’s
24-4
571
8
Michigan State
22-5
512
9
Iowa State
21-6
492
10
Texas Tech
21-6
467
11
Texas…
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Publish date : 2025-02-24 18:06:00
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