Through Oct. 31, Sports Illustrated will count down its preseason college basketball Top 25 with overviews of each team. Here are the full rankings so far.
No coach in the country enters 2025–26 under more pressure than Hubert Davis. At most schools, his national title game appearance and NCAA tournament No. 1 seed in four seasons would be cause for celebration … but North Carolina isn’t most schools. Years 2 and 4 of his tenure have been ugly, missing the tournament as preseason No. 1 in 2023 before a mess of a ’25 season that saw the Tar Heels sneak into the Big Dance but go just 1–12 in Quad 1 games. A repeat of last season would likely cause a coaching change in Chapel Hill, N.C.
