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All Times EST No. 7 Michigan St. (17-2) vs. Minnesota (11-9), 8 p.m. No. 8 Tennessee (17-3) vs. No. 12 Kentucky (14-5), 7 p.m. No. 9 Marquette (17-3) at Butler (9-11), 8:30 p.m. No. 11 Kansas

Michigan State moved up one spot to No. 7 and was followed by the Vols, who balanced out their close loss to Auburn by beating No. 14 Mississippi State. Marquette and Purdue — which beat then-No. 21 Michigan — rounded out the top 10.

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The Texas A&M men’s basketball team fell remained No. 13 in the Associated Press Top 25, but fell two spots to No. 15 in the USA Today coaches poll.

No. 1 Auburn (18-1) did not play. Next: at LSU, Wednesday. No. 2 Duke (17-2) vs. NC State. Next: vs. North Carolina, Saturday.

No. 25 UConn (14-6) vs. DePaul (10-11), 8 p.m. No. 16 Oregon (16-4) at UCLA (14-6), 10:30 p.m. No. 18 Illinois (14-6) at Nebraska (12-8), 8:30 p.m. No. 19 Memphis (16-4) at Tulane (11-9), 9 p.m.