With several top-ranked teams across a variety of men’s and women’s sports, several Blue Devil squads are poised to embark on potentially-championship-winning runs. The Chronicle discusses the possibility of an 18th Duke national championship in our latest Take of the week.

Despite what earlier headlines might’ve said about Duke forward Cooper Flagg, it didn’t take him long to figure out college basketball. Previously lower splits

Alabama was ranked No. 11 in the national polls, but picked to finish 10th in the SEC this season, showing just how tough the conference is. The coaches predicted newcomer Texas to win the league with Florida, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas A&M rounding out the top five.

The Kentucky Wildcats softball team is hoping to build on last season's success, but are ranked 11th in the preseason SEC coaches poll.

Washington Wizards - Cooper Flagg, F, Duke. Flagg is living up to the ‘generational’ tag, and proving without a doubt that he’s in a tier of his own in this class. Flagg

Contrast that success with Calipari’s first Arkansas team, which needed six tries to notch its first SEC win of the year, and Kentucky fans figure to have plenty of ammunition Saturday. The Razorbacks are just 12-8 overall, and their 1-6 start to SEC play has them looking like a long shot for an NCAA Tournament berth.

Joe Lyberger, a quality control coach working with Ohio State's linebackers, was placed on paid administrative leave last month by the university.

The Sooners have gone 2-2 in games that have come down the stretch against nationally ranked opponents this season. Why? And how does Baranczyk's players feel their coach handles those situations?

The Texas A&M softball team is ranked eighth in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association preseason top 25 poll, which is the program’s highest ranking since being sixth in 2018.

The Nets (14-33) sit just two games back of the Hornets (12-31) in the Cooper Flagg Sweepstakes, and if Ball doesn’t play Wednesday, it makes it more likely that the Nets will beat them. Charlotte could also lose more games going forward if Ball, their leading scorer, misses extended time.

Vanderbilt enters AP Top 25 at No. 23, Tennessee coach returns after giving birth, conference breakdown, and upcoming games of the week highlighted in the article.

Guerrieri represents the continuity option. He's a Knowles guy through and through, initially coming with him to Ohio State as a senior analyst back in 2022. After a year apart at Indiana in 2023, Knowles missed him so much that he convinced Day to bring him back to Columbus, where he spent this past season as safeties coach.