No. 1 Tennessee and No. 2 Auburn remained in a battle for the top spot in the latest AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll Monday for the fourth consecutive week to keep the SEC's dominant start to the 2024-25 season rolling.

The holiday season hasn't had a major impact on the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll with Tennessee still leading Auburn for the No. 1 spot.

Northwestern’s Brooks Barnhizer scores 21 points, grabs 17 boards and has six assists, four steals and three blocks after he had 10/10/3/3/3 in a win over Georgia Tech to be the only player to post 20 plus points, 10 plus rebounds, three plus assists, three plus steals and three plus blocks twice in a season.

Once again, the Auburn Tigers were unable to claim the No. 1 spot in the AP Poll this week. With Bruce Pearl's squad, and many other programs, dormant this week due to winter break on college campuses,

Johni Broome to stay healthy. There hasn't been a more dominant team in college basketball this season -- Auburn is putting up historic efficiency numbers through the first two months. But when Broome went down with a shoulder injury a couple of minutes into the Tigers' game against Georgia State last week,

Auburn will play two games before the release of the next AP Poll. In addition to their non-conference finale against Monmouth on Monday night, the Tigers host Missouri on Saturda