The 2025–26 High Point Panthers men's basketball team represented High Point University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by first-year head coach Flynn Clayman, played their home games at the Qubein Center in High Point, North Carolina as members of the Big South Conference.
Previous season The Panthers finished the 2024–25 season 29–6, 14–2 in Big South play, to finish as Big South regular season champions. They defeated Gardner–Webb, Radford, and Winthrop to win the Big South tournament championship, earning their first ever trip to the NCAA tournament. In the NCAA tournament, the Panthers would receive the #13 seed in the Midwest Region, where they would lose in the First Round to #4 region seed Purdue.
On April 10, 2025, it was announced that head coach Alan Huss would be stepping down after just two seasons, in order to take the associate head coaching position at his alma mater, Creighton. A day later, on April 11, the school announced that they would be elevating associate head coach Flynn Clayman to be the team's new head coach.
Preseason On October 15, 2025, the Big South Conference released their preseason coaches poll. High Point was picked to finish atop the conference, while receiving eight first-place votes.
Preseason rankings +Big South Preseason Poll Place Team Points 1 High Point 80 (8) 2 68 (1) 3 53 4 52 5 51 6 37 7 27 8 19 9 18
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Roster
Schedule and results High Point clinched the 12-seed after beating Winthrop in the Big South tournament, clinching their second ever Big South championship.https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/old-struggles-fade-hpu-men-035900635.html High Point upset 5-seed Wisconsin in the Round of 64, earning their first NCAA Division I tournament win in franchise history.https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/why-not-us-high-point-stuns-wisconsin-for-first-ncaa-tournament-win-in-program-history-march-madness/83-a375638c-2dbd-480d-988a-4679ebda97e9
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Rankings
*AP did not release a week 8 poll.
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