Duke and Houston retained their respective spots at No. 1 and No. 2 in the latest AP Top 25 college basketball poll released Monday for a second consecutive week. Duke earned 49 first-place votes on the heels of winning the ACC championship,

If you listened to most of the college basketball experts making TV appearances since the March Madness brackets were released Sunday, the NCAA Tournament is Florida’s to lose. However, the University of Houston did get its fair share of love.

NEW YORK (AP) — Duke, Houston, Florida and Auburn top the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll heading into March Madness.

Houston basketball enters the NCAA Tournament, coming off another terrific season under head coach Kelvin Sampson. The Cougars have seamlessly transitioned from dominating the American Athletic Conference to running through the Big 12 in consecutive seasons.

UConn is trying to become the second team in Division I men’s hoops history to ever win three consecutive NCAA titles. Legendary coach John Wooden’s UCLA teams, from 1967 to ’73, won seven in a row. Not so fast,