2025-26 Rankings

ESPN updated Top 25 (5/6/25):

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Risers and new entrants to our latest men's top 25

UConn climbs the ranks. Illinois and Creighton join the mix. See the fourth edition of our early top 25.
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#2 UConn
#3 St. John's
#19 Creighton

The entire writeup is all about St. John's vs. UConn. Regardless of whether UConn ends up a spot ahead of us or behind us in the Preseason AP Poll, it's excellent for the conference that these two teams are top 3. Borzello is an AP voter and his ballot is obviously pretty influential, so this type of AP Poll is becoming closer to reality each day. The BE hasn't had a preseason this optimistic, at least at the top of the conference, since realignment.
 
ADORAZ said:
ESPN updated Top 25:

www.espn.com

Risers and new entrants to our latest men's top 25

UConn climbs the ranks. Illinois and Creighton join the mix. See the fourth edition of our early top 25.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

#2 UConn
#3 St. John's
#19 Creighton

The entire writeup is all about St. John's vs. UConn. Regardless of whether UConn ends up a spot ahead of us or behind us in the Preseason AP Poll, it's excellent for the conference that these two teams are top 3. Borzello is an AP voter and his ballot is obviously pretty influential, so this type of AP Poll is becoming closer to reality each day. We haven't had a preseason this optimistic, at least at the top of the conference, since realignment.
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Creighton not getting nearly enough respect.
 
Marillac2 said:
Creighton not getting nearly enough respect.
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Recognize similar assessments can be made of our transfers... but Iowa with 7-13 Big 10 record with Freeman/Dix... which are the anchors of Creighton's transfer class... I'm not ready to put Creighton too high...

The Kalk sized hole in their lineup will be extremely tough to replace... matchup nightmare against most every team.
 
bucketshardy said:
Recognize similar assessments can be made of our transfers... but Iowa with 7-13 Big 10 record with Freeman/Dix... which are the anchors of Creighton's transfer class... I'm not ready to put Creighton too high...

The Kalk sized hole in their lineup will be extremely tough to replace... matchup nightmare against most every team.
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Yes they won’t be able to Kalk up the whole at the center position this season.
 
bamafan said:
Yes they won’t be able to Kalk up the whole at the center position this season.
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bucketshardy said:
Recognize similar assessments can be made of our transfers... but Iowa with 7-13 Big 10 record with Freeman/Dix... which are the anchors of Creighton's transfer class... I'm not ready to put Creighton too high...

The Kalk sized hole in their lineup will be extremely tough to replace... matchup nightmare against most every team.
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I thought Creighton recently received a commitment from a freshman seven footer....
 
MJDinkins said:
I thought Creighton recently received a commitment from a freshman seven footer....
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Aaron Paul He Cant Keep Getting Away With This GIF by Breaking Bad
 
The last time we were ranked in the Preseason AP was 1999-2000 (#18). Our highest ever Preseason AP ranking was #7 in 1984-85.

This year will be our first Preseason ranking in 26 years, and almost certainly the highest debut in program history.

When I traveled to Providence for the Johnnies - Arkansas game I was annoyed with the outcome, but I wasn't THAT annoyed. The reason is I knew we'd be very good again this upcoming year, which had never been the case after our early Tournament exits the last couple decades (2 senior Lavin teams, 1 senior Mullin team). Also, although we didn't advance as far we hoped for, the season was undoubtedly a success after breaking the 25 year Tournament win/BET Title drought. I always figured our return to national relevance would require a deep NCAA Tournament run, not before then.

Still work to be done (deep run), but couldn't be happier with the current state of our program. I know some don't really care about rankings until well after the season begins, but this has been the most enjoyable offseason by a mile IMO.
 
lawmanfan said:
And it's a weird justification - if Houston was #1 with Isaacs and they are swapping Isaacs for Uzan (basically), that makes them NOT #1? Just weird.
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It appears he was already taking Uzan into the equation playing with Isaacs. Either way, who cares about being number one now. Let’s hope we can be number one at the end of the year.
 
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What everyone has to realize is that it doesn’t matter if the Johnnie’s are over rated, can’t back it up, etc., the amount of PR this will generate for the program is enormous and will pay huge dividends in the long run. It’s how teams like Duke and Kentucky, among others always seem to be in the lime light and always stay ranked no matter how many losses they seem to come up with. This is just fantastic.
 
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