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For the second straight year, Kentucky does something that is unusual for them: they return a lot of their minutes from last season. Preseason College Basketball Rankings: #4 Kentucky Wildcats One of the most impactful draft decisions to happen was the 2021-22 AP Player of the Year and Naismith Award winner Oscar Tshiebwe deciding to […] READ MORE
We have reached the top five. With it comes Creighton. They are the team that has happened to unseat Villanova as the preseason favorite in the Big East. They return a lot of talent from last year’s team, which was young and really overachieved. Plus, they bring in arguably the best player in the transfer […] READ MORE
Tennessee looked like one of the best teams in the country down the stretch last season. They ran through and won the SEC Tournament championship. Then came a terrible seeding job by the selection committee as the Volunteers were given a 3 seed. While the Vols did lose two key players, they are still looking […] READ MORE
If you are wondering if it really took this long to get to a Big Ten team in my rankings, then you would be correct. Considering the conference had nine teams make the NCAA Tournament last season, it can be surprising, but all of them, except for Indiana, suffered huge losses. They return 78.1% of […] READ MORE
Texas just never seemed to find enough cohesion and consistency in order to succeed last year. The Longhorns did lose a lot of talent, but they also brought a lot of talent back and brought in even more. With more time together, this team should be able to find that consistency that they did not […] READ MORE
Alabama was an enigma last season. There might not have been a more inconsistent or polarizing team in college basketball last season than the Crimson Tide. They beat multiple great teams but lost to multiple pretty bad ones. The Tide lost some really good players but bring in a stellar recruiting class and multiple good […] READ MORE
Dayton was the very first team out of the NCAA Tournament last season. They had some really good wins (Davidson, Virginia Tech, Miami, and eventual national champion Kansas.), but also had some really bad losses (Lipscomb, UMass-Lowell, Austin Peay.). But, they had the youngest rotation in college basketball. All but two of their major contributors […] READ MORE
There was arguably not a team that was a bigger disappointment last season than the Oregon Ducks. Multiple big losses will hurt but a good group of newcomers will try to make up for them. Dana Altman is one of the best and most consistent head coaches in the country. The Ducks have won at […] READ MORE
TCU was a 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament last season and almost upset 1 seed Arizona in the second round. Everyone from that team comes back this year. This could be Jamie Dixon’s best squad since Pitt. The Horned Frogs could very well be too low on this list. Preseason College Basketball Rankings: #20 […] READ MORE
The San Diego State Aztecs and head coach Brian Dutcher have benefitted like no other from the extra year of player eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four fifth-seniors return for the team this season. They will be the favorites in a strong Mountain West. You can check out the previous team in my rankings […] READ MORE