College Basketball AP Top 25: Michigan Soars in Rankings After Huge Win Over Gonzaga

A look at college basketball’s latest rankings heading into Week 5.

Michigan took care of business over Gonzaga in the Players Era championship. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

College basketball’s 2025 version of Feast Week has officially come and gone, and with it came plenty of action as NCAA hoops enters December.

The week that was saw Michigan take down Gonzaga by 40(!) points with a 101–61 win in the Players Era championship—a pseudo-tournament littered with NIL money that also saw Iowa State's Milan Momcilovic put together two epic shooting performances and Creighton announcer John Bishop go viral over his call of the Jays' loss to Baylor.

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Elsewhere, even St. John’s coach Rick Pitino had an opinion about Lane Kiffin moving from Ole Miss to LSU, as he highlighted the absurdity of the college football calendar.

And just like that, we’re onto Week 5. Here’s a look at the latest AP Top 25 rankings in college basketball:

AP Top 25 Rankings, Week 5

Rank	Team	Change From Last Week
1.	Purdue Boilermakers	None
2.	Arizona Wildcats	None
3.	Michigan Wolverines	+4
4.	Duke Blue Devils	None
5.	UConn Huskies	None
6.	Louisville Cardinals	None
7.	Michigan State Spartans	+4
8.	Houston Cougars	-5
9.	BYU Cougars	None
10.	Iowa State Cyclones	+5
11.	Gonzaga Bulldogs	+1
12.	Alabama Crimson Tide	-4
13.	Tennessee Volunteers	+4
14.	Illinois Fighting Illini	-1
15.	Florida Gators	-5
16.	North Carolina Tar Heels	None
17.	Vanderbilt Commodores	+7
18.	Kentucky Wildcats	+1
19.	Texas Tech Red Raiders	+1
20.	Auburn Tigers	+1
21.	Kansas Jayhawks	None
22.	Indiana Hoosiers	+3
23.	St. John’s Red Storm	-9
24.	USC Trojans	New to Top 25
25.	Arkansas Razorbacks	-3

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