But what we've already learned through nine days of this season is that even if Peterson, Dybantsa and Boozer are in a tier by themselves in some regards, the list of elite freshmen is much longer than three names, and Louisville's Mikel Brown Jr. announced himself as part of it with a great performance in Tuesday's 96-88 victory over Kentucky.

A look at the first Associated Press Top 25 rankings since the start of the 2025-26 college basketball season.

The rivalry game has arrived. Already. Louisville and Kentucky are still nearly three weeks away from renewing their football series, but they’ll square off on the

The SEC is set to be one of college basketball's top conferences again this season. Here are the SEC's preseason power rankings entering 2025-26.

Kentucky failed its first big test, but that hardly makes this 2025-26 season a failure. As much as the rivalry loss to Louisville will sting — and as bad as the Wildcats looked for long stretches in the KFC Yum Center on Tuesday night — this defeat took place on Nov.

After Tuesday brought exciting matchups across college basketball, CBS Sports updated the top 25 and 1 rankings.

One of the risers into the top five was Duke. The Blue Devils jumped two spots to No. 4 after a win over Texas in the first game of the Cameron Boozer era. UConn moved up one spot to No. 3 after blowout wins over New Haven and UMass Lowell to open the season.

After going 3-0 in the first week of the 2025-26 college basketball season, Kenny Brooks and the Kentucky Wildcats improved one spot in the Associated Press women’s college basketball Top 25, moving up to No. 23.