The 2025–26 Austin Peay Governors men's basketball team represented Austin Peay State University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Governors, led by third-year head coach Corey Gipson, played their home games at F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, Tennessee, as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
With their win over Jacksonville on February 21, the Governors clinched a share of the ASUN regular-season title, their first regular season title since 2008 when they were in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Previous season The Governors finished the 2024–25 season 14–19, 8–10 in ASUN play, to finish in a tie for seventh place. They defeated North Florida, before falling to North Alabama in the quarterfinals of the ASUN tournament.
Preseason On October 17, 2025, the ASUN released their preseason polls. Austin Peay was picked to finish fifth in the coaches poll, with one first-place vote, and seventh in the media poll.
Preseason rankings
+ASUN Preseason Coaches Poll Place Team Votes 1 136 (6) 2 117 3 111 (2) 4 98 (2) 5 Austin Peay 94 (1) 6 88 7 77 8 57 9 56 10 36 11 34 (1) 12 32
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+ASUN Preseason Media Poll Place Team Votes 1 519 (18) 2 495 (3) 3 468 (9) 4 465 (12) 5 408 (9) 6 381 7 Austin Peay 357 8 243 9 192 10 189 11 174 12 126
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Roster
Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=""| Exhibition
!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style=""| ASUN regular season
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