The fourth meeting of the concurrent No. 1 teams in the AP Poll and Coaches Poll in college basketball history lived up to the billing, and after Michigan took its first loss of the season at Wisconsin and Tennessee had to hang on for dear life at home against Alabama, Duke's 72–70 win over Virginia might as well have been a title belt unification match.
With the vanquishing of the 2018–19 season's final undefeated team, it's time to reset the table and strap in for a breakneck two-month sprint to Selection Sunday. At the end of a seven-day stretch in which it faced more adversity than it had all year to that point, Duke has reasserted its case to be the undisputed top dog in college basketball this season, putting away its biggest ACC challenger without the services of point guard Tre Jones.