James Madison University’s men’s basketball team finished the 2025-26 season with an overall record of 18-15 and a Sun Belt Conference record of 9-9, according to an April 10 announcement. The Dukes secured their sixth consecutive winning season, marking the first time since the early to mid-1990s that the program has achieved such a streak.
This sustained success is significant for JMU’s basketball program, highlighting consistent performance and progress over recent years. Since joining the Sun Belt Conference in the 2022-23 season, JMU has posted a conference-best overall mark of 92 wins and 42 losses.
Cliff Davis and Justin McBride were named to the Third Team All-Sun Belt for their performances during the season. Davis started all games and led with an average of 15.6 points per game, hitting nearly one hundred three-pointers—third-most in school history for a single season. McBride averaged 15.3 points and collected more than five rebounds per game, becoming only the second Duke since Matt Lewis in the 2019-20 campaign to reach those numbers across an entire season. He also recorded two games scoring at least thirty points.
Freshman Christian Brown set a new school record for blocks by a first-year player, finishing with forty-nine on the year—surpassing Andre Nation’s previous mark from more than a decade ago. Brown began his collegiate career strongly with seven blocks against Akron and continued his defensive impact throughout the schedule.
Guard Kose Egbule transferred from Dickinson State ahead of this past season. After limited play early on, he became a regular starter from January onward following his debut start against Marshall on January seventeenth.
At home in Atlantic Union Bank Center, JMU compiled an eleven-win to four-loss record this year, improving its all-time home mark at that venue to sixty-eight wins against eighteen losses since opening before the start of the 2020-21 campaign.
