College basketball’s ‘Year of the Freshman’ has arrived for men’s 2025-26 season

Two days and a couple hundred games isn’t nearly a strong enough sample size to make any broad declarations about a season that will span five months and feature 365 teams.

That doesn’t mean that we can’t do it anyway.

The 2025-26 men’s college basketball season is “The Year of the Freshman.” That’s what it’s been for 48 hours. That’s what it will be for the next five months.

Now, this didn’t exactly come out of thin air. For a couple of years now, recruiting analysts and basketball bennies of every sort have been emphatically stating that the 2025 recruiting class was the best the sport had seen “in decades.” Headlining the

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