Simply 4 groups ranked within the preseason AP Prime 25 ballot in males’s basketball suffered losses within the opening week of the school basketball season. However these 4 outcomes, all losses to ranked opponents — No. 15 Alabama’s 103-96 win over No. 5 St. John’s, No. 25 North Carolina’s 87-74 win over No. 19 Kansas, No. 22 Michigan State’s 69-66 win over No. 14 Arkansas and No. 13 Arizona’s 93-87 win over No. 3 Florida — had been greater than sufficient to arrange a reshuffling of the primary AP Prime 25 ballot of the 2025-26 season which drops Monday.
My stab at predicting how voters react to these outcomes and the remainder of the primary week of motion within the season is beneath.
The largest adjustments will doubtless be a fall for the 4 ranked groups that suffered losses and, predictably, corresponding strikes up the board for the groups who dealt them defeats. However there may be some minor shuffling elsewhere on this week’s ballot because of how voters reconfigure their ballots.
Late choice by Labaron Philon to return to Alabama pays off in early season upset vs. St. John’s
Cameron Salerno
Beneath is how I challenge the AP Prime 25 ballot to shake out Monday.