The 2025 portion of the women’s college basketball season is in the rear view, and the premier programs in the […]

The biggest current coordinator vacancies belong to Ohio State and Oregon. With Brian Hartline departing for South Florida to become a head coach, Ryan Day is searching for a new play-caller for 2026. Dan Lanning, meanwhile, must replace both OC Will Stein, now the head coach at Kentucky, and DC Tosh Lupoi, who left for the same role at California.

Indiana, Oregon, Mississippi and Miami still have a chance to hoist the trophy, but which title game would be the most entertaining of the bunch?

Vanderbilt women's basketball has moved into the top 10 of the AP Poll, with a No. 7 ranking — its highest since 2007. The Commodores (15-0, 2-0 SEC) won at Arkansas to start SEC play, then beat LSU at home on Jan. 4 for the program's first win over a then-top five opponent under Shea Ralph.

We are living in a country where Indiana's football program is ranked No. 1 and favored to win the national championship. That's crazy. Similarly nutty, Nebraska's men's basketball program is undefeated and ranked in the top 10 for the first time since 1966.

Here's an updated look at the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll and AP Top 25 on Jan. 5 of the men's college basketball season:

The Hoosiers have won four of their last five outings and are relatively well-respected by CBB's top experts. But are they even better than the pundits say?