Western Australian is rated college basketball’s fifth-best player, and his Gators its best team.<\/p>\n
Condon is rated the No. 5 player in NCAA Division I by Evan MiyaHis Florida Gators are the projected No. 1 team in the country He is the only Australian ranked inside Evan Miya’s top 100 players<\/p>\n
Australian centre Alex Condon is ranked the best player on the best team heading into the 2026-27 NCAA Men\u2019s Division 1 basketball season<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old Western Australian is ranked 5th by analytics site Evan Miya<\/a> while his 2025 National Champion Florida Gators are the projected No. 1 team<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n His BPR<\/a> of +9.53 estimates how many points per 100 possessions he would be better than his opponent if he were on the court with nine other average Division I players. Michigan State\u2019s No.1. ranked Jeremy Fears Jr. comes in at +11.12.<\/p>\n The Gators are stacked: Condon #5; teammates Thomas Haugh #6; Rueben Chinyelu #17; and Boogie Fland #24 are all in the Top 25. Fellow Australian Gator Alex Kovatchev is ranked 4,013.<\/p>\n Condon, who made his Australian Boomers debut<\/a> in July, withdrew from the 2026 NBA Draft<\/a>, opting instead to return to Florida for his senior season and a NIL bag.<\/p>\n “It’s not the result that we wanted at the end of the year,” Condon told ESPN<\/a>. <\/p>\n “I think we’re a better team than that. So, [we] left a bit of unfinished business with the Gators. <\/p>\n “So to go back to school and compete \u2013 we know what it’s like to win a national championship, and that’s the No. 1 goal for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Condon is the only Australian in the Top 100<\/a>. Wisconsin\u2019s Austin Rapp (+5.11) is ranked 125th; Ole Miss forward Roman Siulepa <\/a>(+3.97) is 256th; Rapp\u2019s Badgers teammate and former South East Melbourne Phoenix<\/a> guard Owen Foxwell <\/a>(+3.16) is 404th; and Foxwell\u2019s brother Joel (+2.06)<\/a> at Arizona State is 712th.<\/p>\n The NCAA basketball season starts on November 2, 2026 (AEDT).<\/p>\n The 10 best rated players in Division I men\u2019s basketball before a ball is bounced, and then every Australian, in rank order. A higher rating is better, and 0.0 is an average Division I player. Ratings by EvanMiya.com.<\/p>\n How the rating works, and what the marked rows mean<\/p>\n \n What the rating means. It estimates how many points per 100 possessions better than the opponent a player\u2019s team would be if he were on the court with nine other average Division I players. Off and Def split that between his attacking and defensive value, and a higher number is better in both. The ratings are not ours. They are the Bayesian Performance Ratings published by EvanMiya.com, reproduced as supplied, and the credit for the modelling belongs there.<\/p>\n These are PREDICTIONS, not results. Nobody has played a game yet, so every figure here is what the model expects from last season\u2019s form, who has arrived and who has left. The columns that count what actually happens on the floor \u2013 minutes, shooting, plus-minus \u2013 are empty until the season starts, so we have left them out rather than print a row of zeros that looks like a measurement.<\/p>\n Why some rows say \u201cteam rating\u201d. Where the model has nothing to go on for an individual player, it gives him his team\u2019s rating instead. Those players share an identical figure with their own team-mates, down to the last decimal place. It is a fair guess about the team and it is not a measurement of the player, so we mark it rather than let it read as a verdict on him. 10 of the 76 Australians here are marked; across the whole list of 5,465 players, 514 are in that position, and none of them are in the top 1,000.<\/p>\n Who counts as Australian. The Australians are the men on our own list of every Australian in NCAA Division I men\u2019s basketball, as it stood on 3 September 2026. 76 of them appear in the ratings; 7 do not, either because their school is not settled yet or because the ratings simply do not carry them. So this is the Australians we track who are rated, not a count of every Australian in college basketball.\n <\/p>\n The 25 best rated teams in Division I men\u2019s basketball before a ball is bounced, and how many Australians we track are on each. A higher rating is better. Ratings by EvanMiya.com.<\/p>\n How the rating works, and why there are two rankings<\/p>\n \n What the rating means. It estimates how many points per 100 possessions better than their opponent a team is expected to be. Off and Def split that between attack and defence, and a higher number is better in both. These are PREDICTIONS: nobody has played yet, so the columns that count what actually happens \u2013 wins, losses, points scored \u2013 are empty and we have left them out rather than print zeros that look like results. The ratings are not ours: they are published by EvanMiya.com and we have reproduced them as supplied.<\/p>\n \u26d4 Why there are two rankings, and why we print both. The source ranks teams twice: once on its headline rating, and once adjusted for players currently injured. THE TWO DISAGREE AT THE TOP. Florida lead on the headline number by 0.26 points, which on a scale this size is a rounding error; on the injury-adjusted ranking Duke come first instead. So the top of this table is genuinely close, and anyone calling one of them the best team in the country is choosing a column. We show you both.<\/p>\n The Australians column counts the men on our own list of every Australian in NCAA Division I men\u2019s basketball who also appear in these ratings, as that list stood on 3 September 2026. Only 2 of the 76 Australians we track are on a top-25 team, and all of them are at one club. A dash means no Australian we track, not that the club has none.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Australian is rated college basketball’s fifth-best player, and his Gators its best team. 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