Miami finishes regular season ranked in AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches poll

Miami finished the regular season 25th in the Associated Press Top 25 and 23rd in the USA Today Coaches poll in the final regular season rankings. Seventh-seeded Miami plays 10th-seed Missouri on Friday at 10:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time in the NCAA Tournament first-round in St. Louis.

Miami received 110 points in the AP Top 25 and 76 points in the USA Today Coaches Poll. The Hurricanes are one of four ACC teams that finished the regular season in both polls. Duke is the top-ranked team in both polls and the number one overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Miami is the 27th overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. Other ranked ACC teams are Virginia, ninth in the AP Top 25 and eighth in the USA Today Coaches Poll and Louisville, 23rd in the AP Top 25 and 24th in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Miami finished 1-3 against Louisville and Virginia in 2025-26 but did not play Duke.

Florida, fourth in both polls and the number one seed in the NCAA Tournament South Region is the only other team in the final regular season rankings in both polls that Miami played in 2025-26. Miami lost 82-68 to Florida in Jacksonville on November 16.

Miami 2025-26 ranking history

Miami will enter the NCAA Tournament with 25 wins and eight losses. The Hurricanes finished with 24 regular-season wins to tie a program record. Miami was ranked for the first time this season on March 2 when it was 22nd in the AP Top 25. The Hurricanes were out of the poll on March 9 and re-entered this week.

The March 2 ranking was the first time Miami was in the AP Top 25 since it was 24th in the AP Top 25 on December 11, 2023. Miami spent the first six weeks of the 2023-24 season in the rankings. As Jai Lucas said on Selection Sunday, the NCAA Tournament should be the first of many in his tenure. That should be true with the rankings as well.