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Men’s college basketball’s annual “Feast Week” is over, with many of the country’s best teams coming out of multi-team events that dominate this period of the sport’s calendar.
The results from those various tournaments offered some helpful clues on who some of the best teams in the country are about a month into the 2025-26 season.
The loaded Players Era Festival, which included eight ranked squads in its 18-team field, ended with No. 6 Michigan rolling its way to a championship, winning its three games in the event by a combined 110 points. That blistering run was capped off by a 101-61 drubbing of No. 10 Gonzaga in the title game.
Elsewhere, Southern California won an unusually watered-down Maui Invitational, defeating Arizona State 88-75 in the title game to improve to 7-0 on the season. No. 23 Vanderbilt had little trouble winning a similarly weak Battle 4 Atlantis, beating Saint Mary’s 96-71 in the championship game.
There were several notable results away from the MTEs, including No. 7 UConn’s 74-61 victory against No. 14 Illinois in Madison Square Garden in New York and No. 4 Duke’s 80-71 win against No. 21 Arkansas in Chicago.
Here’s an updated look at how those games impacted the latest Coaches Poll and AP Top 25:
First-place votes in parentheses.
- 1. Purdue (21)
- 2. Michigan (6)
- 3. Arizona (3)
- 4. Duke (1)
- 5. UConn
- 6. Louisville
- 7. Houston
- 8. Michigan State
- 9. Iowa State
- 10. BYU
- 11. Gonzaga
- 12. Alabama
- 13. Tennessee
- 14. Florida
- 15. Illinois
- 16. Vanderbilt
- 17. North Carolina
- 18. Kentucky
- T-19. Indiana
- T-19. Texas Tech
- 21. Kansas
- 22. St. John’s
- 23. Arkansas
- 24. Auburn
- 25. Iowa
Others receiving votes: USC 56; UCLA 33; Nebraska 31; Missouri 28; Saint Mary’s 20; Baylor 19; NC State 16; Virginia 14; LSU 14; Clemson 9; Butler 9; Ole Miss 8; TCU 5; Wisconsin 4; Utah State 4; SMU 4; Oklahoma State 1; Colorado 1.
AP Top 25
- 1. Purdue (40)
- 2. Arizona (6)
- 3. Michigan (15)
- 4. Duke
- 5. UConn
- 6. Louisville
- 7. Michigan State
- 8. Houston
- 9. BYU
- 10. Iowa State
- 11. Gonzaga
- 12. Alabama
- 13. Tennessee
- 14. Illinois
- 15. Florida
- 16. North Carolina
- 17. Vanderbilt
- 18. Kentucky
- 19. Texas Tech
- 20. Auburn
- 21. Kansas
- 22. Indiana
- 23. St. John’s
- 24. USC
- 25. Arkansas
Others receiving votes: Iowa 100; UCLA 59; Nebraska 53; TCU 36; Missouri 28; Utah State 16; Saint Mary’s 15; Baylor 13; Oklahoma State 12; SMU 12; Clemson 11; LSU 7; Seton Hall 6; Wisconsin 6; NC State 5; Wake Forest 3; Cal 2; Colorado 1; George Mason 1; Buffalo 1.
