AP men's college basketball Top 25 poll breakdown - ESPN

A number of conferences have finished their regular season and are beginning Champ Week. For most of the teams in the AP poll, however, league tournaments begin next week, giving us over seven more days of regular season play. Just five teams held their ranking, including the top-3 teams: Duke, Arizona and Michigan.

UConn rejoined the top 4, with Florida rounding out the top 5. Overall, the Big 12 has four teams in the top-10 this week, with the Big Ten not far behind at three teams.

Louisville and BYU dropped out this week to make way for Saint Mary's and Miami (Florida). This is the second poll with both Miamis (Florida and Ohio) ranked, the first since Feb. 15, 1999 when the Hurricanes were 15th and the RedHawks were 25th).

The biggest risers were Texas Tech (six spots), Michigan State (five) and Nebraska (three), with all three entering the top 10. The teams that saw the biggest drop in their rankings included Purdue (seven spots), Gonzaga (three) and St. John's (three).

Read on for the full top 25 rankings, including what's next for each team.

All times Eastern. All stats courtesy of ESPN Research unless otherwise noted.

Previous polls: Week 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16

Previous ranking: 1

2025-26 record: 27-2

Stat to know: Jon Scheyer now has 22 ranked wins since becoming Duke's head coach, tying Michigan State's Tom Izzo (1995-99) for the most in a head coach's first four seasons in AP Poll history (since 1948-49).

What's next: Monday at NC State, 7 p.m., ESPN

Previous ranking: 2

2025-26 record: 27-2

Stat to know: Arizona has clinched at least a share of the Big 12 regular season title. This is its first in the Big 12, and third overall in the past five seasons (it won two