Who made big jumps in the top 25? Where do Dybantsa and Peterson land? Here's our final big board of 2026.
Men's national champion Michigan topped the final Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll of the season, while UConn came in second, followed by Arizona, Duke and Illinois to round out the top five.
The 2026 champion is crowned. We're rolling right into ranking next season's best teams -- with a few new rules.
Here's how next season is taking shape for every team that made the final rounds of the NCAA tournament.
Some losses are understandable in the NCAA tournament. Others will haunt us forever (see: Duke). We rank them all.
Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg and Purdue's Braden Smith join the trio of freshmen to make the cut for both.
