Highland School (Va.) five-star Nate Ament was in Knoxville on Tuesday night. The 6-foot-9, 185-pound forward, a longtime Duke basketball offer holder who now ranks No. 4 overall on the 247Sports 2025 Composite, watched the visiting No. 12-ranked Kentucky Wildcats defeat the No. 8 Tennessee Volunteers, 78-73.

Auburn and Iowa State extended their winning streaks this week to nine and 12 games, respectively, further entrenching themselves at the top of the men's college basketball power rankings as both handled top-15 opponents at home with ease -- Auburn against No.

Arch Manning officially has wings, as the Texas Longhorns star quarterback announced he signed an NIL deal with Red Bull. “target locked, wiings secured,” Red B

Texas Tech made its Top 25 season debut at No. 22 after beating Cincinnati and Oklahoma State to run its Big 12 winning streak to four games. Vanderbilt entered the poll at No. 24 for the first time since Dec. 7, 2015, as the women’s team also cracked the poll this week for the first time since 2014.

UCLA and South Carolina remain atop the women's poll, while Texas is back in top five and Vanderbilt is ranked for first time in 11 years.

If you drew up the seed list for the NCAA Tournament, the Tar Heels might be an 11. ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi had North Carolina down as an 11-seed on Tuesday morning — hours before the Tar Heels lost at Pitt, 73-65.

UConn women’s basketball remained No. 6 in the Week 13 AP poll, and Sarah Strong swept the Big East’s weekly awards for the third time.

Duke men’s basketball stayed at No. 2 in this week’s AP Poll despite some shakeups further down. The Blue Zone gives it thoughts on the changes on the weekly rankings.

Duke remained No. 2 followed by Iowa State ... while Kentucky fell three spots to No. 12 after losing to Vanderbilt. Texas A&M and Mississippi State were next after each went 1-1 on the week ...

Auburn survived a challenge from Tennessee and the Tigers remain the No. 1 team in the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll followed by Duke.

We typically have situations where not always, but often where our groups will get harassed and pulled over just because there’s five to 10 people driving together down the street,” said The Duke.

As we approach the midpoint of conference play, let's take a closer look at some teams rising up the rankings thanks to their defense.