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It's our last show before Christmas! We run through all of the major conferences and discuss Texas Tech's big come from behind win against Duke and how strong the Big 12 is with as many as five teams in position to end up with protected seeds, The ACC has a lot of teams like Cal, and Stanford, and SMU, and several others who are outperforming their preseason rankings and is much stronger than it was a year ago. Purdue, Illinois, and Michigan State are still going strong in the Big Ten, and Vanderbilt is the biggest story in the SEC. We also discuss how much the Big East is struggling, and how the WCC, A10, American, and MWC might all be one big leagues.

This week's featured conference is the CAA, and there are a lot of teams to discuss. UNC Wilmington is off to a fantastic start, but we discuss how their schedule has been weak and debate whether or not their record is a little inflated. William & Mary is another good team, Hofstra had a great week with their win at Syracuse, Elon had a big win tonight against Richmond, and Towson looks to be tough as well.

After that we run through the other 21 UTR conferences and discuss the overall strength of the Big West where Hawaii and UC San Diego are off to great starts. The Missouri Valley is looking very strong with teams like Northern Iowa, Belmont, Murray State, and Illinois State. Yale and Columbia are off to great starts in the Ivy League, and McNeese looks like the best team in the Southland, but Stephen F Austin is also really good. We discuss all that, and more. And, as we do every week, we close with this week's UTR Top Ten.

HoopsHD Report 12-15-2025