Men's college basketball Power Rankings: Michigan leaps to No. 1 - ESPN

It's been a revolving door at No. 1 the past couple of weeks. Purdue opened the 2025-26 season in the top spot but got replaced by Arizona after the Wildcats won at UConn in mid-November — arguably the single most impressive victory of the season thus far. If not for a Power Rankings hiatus for Thanksgiving, the Boilermakers would have taken the No. 1 spot back just a couple days later when they blew out Texas Tech in the Bahamas.

Instead of a debate between the Wildcats and Boilermakers, though, a third team emerged during Feast Week — and ultimately jumped both teams to rise to No. 1.

Michigan's performance at the Players Era Championship in Las Vegas was perhaps the best Feast Week run we've ever seen. Three wins over potential NCAA tournament teams — San Diego State, Auburn and Gonzaga, the last of which looked like a No. 1 candidate before the loss — by a combined 110 points. The Wolverines rose to No. 1 in nearly every metric, from KenPom to Bart Torvik to the NET.

Some of the stats were simply eye-popping, with this one standing out:

Michigan is the first team in the AP Poll era (since 1948-49) with consecutive 30-point wins, both coming against ranked opponents