And since we're in a giving mood, let's look at one thing each top-25 team needs in the second half of the 2024-25 season. 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.

Tennessee received 38 more first-place votes than Auburn in last week's Associated Press Top 25 poll. My guess is that the gap between the two programs will close some Monday when things update given what Bruce Pearl's Tigers just did to Purdue.

How much benefit of the doubt should we give those Big Ten Conference teams who played the toughest non-conference schedules? Ken Pomeroy’s analytics site classifies some games as either A (top 50) or B (top 100) quality based on both opponent and location.