When a team is winning by double-digit margins as routinely as Duke, the players might forget what it's like to be involved in the kind of basket-for-basket battle that comes up in the NCAA Tournament.

Duke zigged when others zagged. It went young rather than old. Instead of stocking up on experienced transfers, the Blue Devils loaded up with high-end, five-star freshmen. It is working wonderfully so far,

Duke, Houston and Tennessee each moved up in the top five of this week's coaches poll. Auburn is No. 1, receiving 28 of 30 first-place votes, but the Blue Devils jumped Florida to take take No. 2 in this week's poll after their rout of Illinois on Saturday and garnered two first-place votes.