Predicting how AP Top 25 poll voters will react to results during the season can become predictable after studying voter’s habits and tendencies.
But predicting how voters will cast their ballots in the first preseason poll of 2025-26? That’s anyone’s guess. And that anyone will be yours truly.
As I do ahead of each AP Top 25 poll release — from preseason to the final poll of the postseason — I will release my No. 1-25 rankings based on how I think voters will rank the teams. Not how I would rank the teams and not how Gary Parrish would rank the teams — but how I think the teams will be ranked when the ballots are tabulated and the results are published.
Purdue shows quiet confidence it can break through in NCAA Tournament, end Big Ten’s 25-year title drought
Gary Parrish
This recurring post is normally called Tomorrow’s Top 25 Today, though this time it comes a few days early with the AP preseason Top 25 poll set to be released Monday. Let’s dive in.
1. Purdue Boilermakers
Purdue and coach Matt Painter bring back four starters — including two potential First Team All-Americans in Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn — from a team that won 24 games and narrowly lost to eventual national runner-up Houston in the Sweet 16. All told,…
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