BYU freshman AJ Dybantsa led all scorers with 25 points. The 6-foot-8 wing is now averaging 20.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.0 assists per contest through four games while shooting 57.4% from the field and 40.0% from 3-point range.

This season's November slate of men's college basketball is as loaded as it has ever been, which means notable fluctuation in the early-season rankings. The biggest risers over the first 10 days were Arizona and Alabama, as both programs leveraged their strengths to secure huge road wins over top-five opponents Florida and St. John's, respectively.

TCU won’t really be tested again until January and it may be premature to put a team this new in the top 10. But this type of early-season success is becoming commonplace in Fort Worth. With a point guard who has led elite teams before and can optimize surrounding talent, I believe in their upside.

We saw the game go from the preps-to-pros era, which included the great LeBron James never playing a minute of NCAA basketball, to the draft age limit that led to such talents as Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis and Derrick Rose lighting up the winter in college uniforms.

Mirkovic is now averaging 18.5 points and 12.5 rebounds through four games with the Illini. He's the biggest reason Illinois is up to No. 12 in Saturday morning's updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings.

The start of the 2025-26 men’s college basketball season has gone as well as the Iowa State Cyclones could have hoped for. They started things off with a convin