Who's Your Pre-Season Top 25?

[douggie]

OK, this board needs a Top 25 for the upcoming 2015-2016 season. Let's start this off...

Pre-Season(8-16-2015)

1)Maryland
2)Kentucky
3)Kansas
4)Duke
5)UNC
6)Gonzaga
7)Iowa State
8)Villanova
9)Virginia
10)Michigan State
11)Arizona
12)Indiana
13)Wichita State
14)LSU
15)Louisville
16)Wisconsin
17)California
18)Texas
19)UConn
20)Florida State
21)Baylor
22)Oklahoma
23)Utah
24)Butler
25)NC State

Just outside: Purdue, Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Ohio State, Georgetown, Dayton, Texas A&M, Georgia, Arizona State, Syracuse, UCLA, Iowa, Vanderbilt, Florida, West Virginia, Oregon.

 

[ericd7633]

1. UNC
2. Maryland
3. Duke
4. Kentucky
5. Kansas
6. Villanova
7. Michigan State
8. Iowa State
9. Virginia
10. Wichita State
11. Oklahoma
12. Indiana
13. Gonzaga
14. California
15. Arizona
16. Georgetown
17. Louisville
18. Baylor
19. Wisconsin
20. LSU
21. Texas A&M
22. Michigan
23. Butler
24. SMU
25. San Diego State

The Next 16: WVU, Xavier, ND, Purdue, Oregon, Utah, UCONN, Rhode Island, NC State, Cincinnati, UCLA, Providence, Ohio State, Marquette, VCU, Evansville.

 

[dcZONAfan]

1) Arizona

Obviously, duh

 

[douggie]

 

[Smart]

My top 10 is:

1. Duke
2. UNC
3. Kentucky
4. Maryland
5. Villanova
6. Virginia
7. Wichita State
8. Kansas
9. Arizona
10. Iowa State

 

[douggie]

Sporting News released their Top 10.

Sporting News releases their preseason college basketball top 10

1. Kansas Jayhawks
2. Kentucky Wildcats
3. Maryland Terrapins
4. North Carolina Tar Heels
5. Duke Blue Devils
6. Virginia Cavaliers
7. Iowa State Cyclones
8. Arizona Wildcats
9. Wichita State Shockers
10. Gonzaga Bulldogs

 

[CatsTopPac]

Sporting News released their Top 10.

Sporting News releases their preseason college basketball top 10

1. Kansas Jayhawks
2. Kentucky Wildcats
3. Maryland Terrapins
4. North Carolina Tar Heels
5. Duke Blue Devils
6. Virginia Cavaliers
7. Iowa State Cyclones
8. Arizona Wildcats
9. Wichita State Shockers
10. Gonzaga Bulldogs

Eh, AZ might be around 8 or so in March, but not to start. We'll see how they do in Spokane, come December.

 

[douggie]

North Carolina Tar Heels are No. 1 in preseason Top 25 (and one) - CBSSports.com

 

[Arizona_Sting]

I honestly don't know if Arizona is a top 25 team this year. I know I'll get shit from my fellow AZ fans for this, but we have too many role players and not a single guy I look at and say "he'll be THE GUY". Maybe Trier but I don't want to rely that heavily on a freshman. Hope they prove me wrong, but they don't have near the talent they did the last 3 years.

Lack of athleticism and a go-to scorer worries me.

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

Michigan going to get tossed around in the B1G again.. I can't want until Izzo gets his top class in and clowns the Wolverines..

 

[Hitman Hart]

CBS ranks every DI team

CBS Sports 2015-16 ranking of every college basketball team, from 1-351 - CBSSports.com

 

[douggie]

CBS ranks every DI team

CBS Sports 2015-16 ranking of every college basketball team, from 1-351 - CBSSports.com

I don't see how they can put LSU #38 with the #1 Freshman coming in and their size.

 

[The Derski]

I honestly don't know if Arizona is a top 25 team this year. I know I'll get shit from my fellow AZ fans for this, but we have too many role players and not a single guy I look at and say "he'll be THE GUY". Maybe Trier but I don't want to rely that heavily on a freshman. Hope they prove me wrong, but they don't have near the talent they did the last 3 years.

Lack of athleticism and a go-to scorer worries me.

I'd say they're definitely top 25. We still brought in yet another top 10 class and the depth on the team is insane. I agree there is not one go to guy on the roster but who was our go to guy last year or the year before? I'd say Derrick Williams has really been the only go to guy we've had in Sean Millers career at Arizona. I think the biggest question mark is how we will transition into having PJC running the offense instead of TJ.

 

[douggie]

 

[Hitman Hart]

NCAA Men's Basketball - Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

Its out. UNC and UK tie for one, Maryland right behind them at three.

This would have been an epic year in the original 8-9 team ACC with Carolina at 1, Maryland at 3, Duke at 4 and Virginia at six.

Damn you, expansion.

 

[purguy12]

Im shocked my UNC team is ranked #1 in the coaches poll. I don't think they are that great. I think they will have a good year but not #1 type year. They don't have that 1 go to player. If Tokoto stayed(bad decision to leave) I would like UNC chances a little more.

I do think Justin Jackson is going to be a Beast this year.

 

[TDs3nOut]

Can't make a full list, but by the end of the season, don't be surprised if the Houston Cougars are in the top-25. We got a squad, beaches!

 

[ericd7633]

Im shocked my UNC team is ranked #1 in the coaches poll. I don't think they are that great. I think they will have a good year but not #1 type year. They don't have that 1 go to player. If Tokoto stayed(bad decision to leave) I would like UNC chances a little more.

I do think Justin Jackson is going to be a Beast this year.

Alot of factors go into UNC being preseason #1. First and foremost they return everybody except Tokoto off a S16 team. Looking at the teams that made the E8. Kentucky lost just about the entire team, Wisconsin lost 5 key people, Duke lost 4 key people, Michigan State made a run last year, but there's a reason they were a 7 seed, and even they lost two of their best players. ND lost their two best players, Arizona lost their best 3 players, Gonzaga lost their starting backcourt and Louisville is in shambles. Also, the incoming freshman class is one of the weakest in the last decade so with all those mass defections, they aren't being replaced with as many talented players in the past. And alot of the top freshman went to non traditional powers. LSU, Cal, Marquette, Purdue, Maryland, Mississippi State, UNLV, Florida State, and South Carolina all got a 5 star recruit and in Cal's instance they got two. That's over half the 5 stars in the country that didn't go traditional powers. Sure Duke and Kentucky got awesome classes again, but they had too because they both lost so much respectively.

As you can see above I had UNC as my preseason #1 team, slightly ahead of Maryland. I love UNC's OOC schedule. It should produce a very good SOS and they have a great chance of getting through that with 1 or 2 losses, maybe even zero. Temple on a neutral, Wofford at home(So Con favorite), @ UNI(MVC top 3 team), Northwestern on a neutral(bubble team IMO), Maryland at home, Davidson at home(bubble team), @ Texas(little bit above bubble) UCLA on a neutral(same boat as Texas) That could realistically be 8 NCAA Tournament teams they face in OOC.

 

[SJ76]

Man I am not here yet.. Let me get into late November and eat some dam turkey, then i'll flip on some college bball!

 

[mr.hockey4242]

Marquette received a coaches poll vote!!! Let's goooooooooooooooo

It was probably McDermott who voted, but I'll take it!!