Florida stays atop Coaches Poll top 25; Kentucky, Purdue drop out of college basketball rankings

There was plenty of movement in the latest Coaches Poll for college basketball

Nov 9, 2026 at 1:19 pm ET • 2 min read

Monday's Coaches Poll adds even more fuel to Tuesday's Championship Classic. It'll be a top-5 matchup between No. 2 Duke and No. 5 Michigan State. Oh, and No. 14 Kansas will tee it up against Kentucky, the first team outside the cut-line this week after being ranked No. 23 in the preseason poll, in the nightcap.

That'll do.

One notable absence from this week's poll is Purdue. No Big Ten team has won more games since 2021 than Matt Painter's Boilermakers, but that's distant memory right now. Purdue is off to a 0-2 start for the first time since 1976-77. A season-opening loss to Gonzaga was totally understandable. A double-overtime home flop to Valparaiso? Not so much. As a result, Purdue has dropped out of the Coaches Poll for the first time since the preseason poll that dropped ahead of the 2022-23 campaign. 

Here is the full Nov. 9 Coaches Poll after the first week of the 2026-27 college basketball season. 

Coaches Poll

The top 25 teams in the USA Today college basketball Coaches Poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:

Rank	Team	Record	Points	Prev.
1	Florida	2-0	786	1
2	Duke	2-0	774	2
3	Illinois	2-0	734	3
4	UConn	2-0	695	5
5	Michigan State	2-0	631	6
6	Virginia	3-0	592	10
7	Texas	2-0	588	7
8	Houston	2-0	584	8
9	Tennessee	1-0	452	9
10	Louisville	2-0	448	11
11	Arizona	1-1	447	4
12	Gonzaga	2-0	414	12
13	St. John's	2-0	409	14
14	Kansas	2-0	370	18
15	UCLA	2-0	368	NR
16	Alabama	2-0	326	18
17	Texas Tech	2-0	281	16
18	Miami	1-1	250	17
19	Vanderbilt	2-0	222	21
20	Arkansas	1-1	198	13
21	Michigan	1-1	160	20
22	USC	2-0	123	22
23	Iowa State	1-1	113	14
24	Nebraska	2-0	104	NR
25	BYU	2-0	102	25

Others receiving votes: Kentucky 101; Memphis 34; Saint Louis 23; Purdue 12; Indiana 12; Texas A&M 11; Baylor 9; North Carolina 6; Marquette 6; West Virginia 5; Missouri 4; LSU 3; Wisconsin 1; Villanova 1; Nevada 1

Here are the 30 coaches on the voting panel: John Becker, Vermont; Jeff Boals, Ohio; Matt Braeuer, Stephen F. Austin; Pat Chambers, Florida Gulf Coast; Scott Drew, Baylor; Dan Earl, Chattanooga; A.W. Hamilton, Eastern Kentucky; Alan Huss, Creighton; Donte' Jackson, Alabama A&M; Ben Jacobson, Utah State; James Jones, Yale; Greg Kampe, Oakland; Eric Konkol, Tulsa; Brad Korn, Southeast Missouri State; Anthony Latina, Sacred Heart; Shantay Legans, Portland; Jim Les, UC Davis; Luke Loucks, Florida State; Nick McDevitt, Middle Tennessee; Mike McGarvey, Lafayette; Dan Monson, Eastern Washington; Chris Mooney, Richmond; Mike Morrell, UNC Asheville; Andy Newman, Cal State Northridge; Nate Oats, Alabama; Matt Painter, Purdue; Paul Sather, North Dakota; Patrick Sellers, Central Connecticut State; Zach Spiker, Drexel; Stan Waterman, Delaware State.