Sunday is the final day of the 2025-26 men's college basketball regular season.
The power conferences will be holding their conference tournaments next week. Next Sunday is Selection Sunday, when the 68-team NCAA Tournament field will be unveiled on CBS.
Heading into the final day of the regular season, ESPN's computer model, the Basketball Power Index, has released its final Top 25 rankings.
ESPN's computer model, the BPI, released its final Top 25 rankings on Sunday morning, March 8:
- Duke
- Michigan
- Arizona
- Florida
- Houston
- Illinois
- Gonzaga
- Iowa State
- Purdue
- UConn
- Louisville
- Tennessee
- Michigan State
- Alabama
- Vanderbilt
- St. John's
- Nebraska
- Texas Tech
- Kansas
- Arkansas
- Kentucky
- BYU
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- UCLA
How does the BPI work?
The BPI is a projection-based model.
"The College Basketball Power Index (BPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of performance going forward. BPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Strength of Record (SOR) is a measure of team accomplishment based on how difficult a team's W-L record is to achieve. Game predictions account for opponent strength, pace of play, site, travel distance, day's rest and altitude, and are used to simulate the season 10,000 times to produce season projections. Numbers update daily," ESPN writes.
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