Tennessee is the new No. 1 college basketball team in the country.

The Vols, riding a 12-game win streak, moved to the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25 on Monday, receiving 48 first-place votes in the week's poll after three of the top four teams lost last week. They received 30 of the possible 32 first-place votes while also jumping to No. 1 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.



Duke, the No. 1 team for the last month, lost at home against an unranked Syracuse team last week. Previously undefeated and second-ranked Michigan lost at Wisconsin on Saturday and Duke followed with a win at home over No. 4 Virginia Saturday night.



All that cleared the way for Tennessee (16-1, 5-0 SEC) to take over the No. 1 ranking for just the second time in school history, after the Vols took care of Arkansas and Alabama in a pair of home games last week.



It was a 106-87 win over Arkansas on Tuesday, the first time scoring over 100 points against an SEC opponent since 2000, and a survival against an upset-minded Alabama team on Saturday, having to rally in the second half to win after leading by as many as 15 points in the first half.



The Vols spent one week at No. 1 in February 2008, after taking down No. 1 Memphis in FedExForum, but after the poll was released on Monday, a loss followed on Tuesday at No. 14 Vanderbilt.



Tennessee travels to Vanderbilt (9-8, 0-5) on Wednesday (7 p.m. Eastern Time; TV: ESPN2) with a sold-out crowd at Memorial Gym awaiting the Vols.



As of this week's poll, Tennessee has been ranked for 27 consecutive weeks, the third-longest such streak in school history.

The top four in the AP Top 25 had been unchanged over the last month. Tennessee was ranked No. 3 for six consecutive weeks, dating back to the upset over then-No. 1 Gonzaga on Dec. 9 in Phoenix.



The only loss so far this season came in overtime against then-No. 2 Kansas on Nov. 23 in New York in the NIT Season Tip-Off championship game. The Vols have won all but two games — Gonzaga and Alabama — by double-digits.



The current 12-game win streak is tied for the third longest in school history, matching the 12 straight wins Tennessee had during the 1976-77 season. That streak started in November against Seton Hall and ended in a January home loss to UCLA.



The longest win streak in program history is 15 games, spanning from February 1915, starting with a win at Louisville, to January 1917, ending with a loss at Maryville.

The Vols won 14 straight games between Jan. 8, 1923 and Feb. 22, 1923, seeing the streak snapped at Vanderbilt. A 13-game win streak from February 1914 to February 1915 started at the Louisville YMCA and ended at Kentucky.



After facing the Commodores on Wednesday, West Virginia (9-9) will visit Thompson-Boling Arena Saturday (4 p.m. ET) for the annual Big 12-SEC Challenge. The Mountaineers started 0-5 in Big 12 play before upsetting No. 7 Kansas Saturday in Morgantown.



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Tennessee will then travel to South Carolina (Jan. 29) and Texas A&M (Feb. 2) before three straight home games against Missouri (Feb. 5), Florida (Feb. 9) and South Carolina (Feb. 13).



The final seven games of the regular-season includes five games against four ranked teams: at No. 8 Kentucky (Feb. 16), at No. 25 LSU (Feb. 23), at No. 20 Ole Miss (Feb. 27), No. 8 Kentucky (March 2), No. 22 Mississippi State (March 5) and at No. 16 Auburn (March 9).

