Florida in 2025. UConn in both 2024 and 2023. Kansas in 2022. Baylor in 2021.
Each men’s college basketball champion the last five years — and for much of the last two decades, really — has one commonality: a heavy reliance on top-of-the-line backcourt talent.
That is no coincidence. It is an instructive throughline of roster construction that should serve as a predictive point for future events.
Using that intel, I dug into the rosters of some of the top teams in 2025-26 and ranked the top 10 backcourts in the sport. The results are below.
College basketball rankings: Each AP Top 25 team’s strengths, weaknesses and depth chart entering 2025-26
Isaac Trotter
Obvious caveat: these rankings are not how I rank the teams, merely the backcourt of the roster. This is strictly a talent-based ranking that does not account for roster construction on the whole. And in the interest of transparency, it only partially accounts for the coaching and the way in which I expect their respective staffs to deploy them.
Let’s dive in.
Backcourt prediction: PG Labaron Philon, SG Aden Holloway, SG/SF Latrell Wrightsell Jr.
Last season, Alabama won 28 games and had the No. 4 offense in adjusted efficiency rating at KenPom.com while finishing first in adjusted…
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