CheapTrickIsOkay's Week Pre-Season Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas | |
| 2 | Gonzaga | |
| 3 | Baylor | |
| 4 | Houston | |
| 5 | Tennessee | |
| 6 | Duke | |
| 7 | Kentucky | |
| 8 | North Carolina | |
| 9 | Arizona | |
| 10 | Villanova | |
| 11 | Arkansas | |
| 12 | UCLA | |
| 13 | Auburn | |
| 14 | Texas | |
| 15 | Texas Tech | |
| 16 | Creighton | |
| 17 | TCU | |
| 18 | Providence | |
| 19 | Purdue | |
| 20 | Illinois | |
| 21 | UConn | |
| 22 | Michigan | |
| 23 | Wisconsin | |
| 24 | Iowa | |
| 25 | Miami (FL) |
Overall Rationale
I don't really know how to do a pre-season, so I just kind of mentally averaged where I put teams at the end of last year and where the media zeitgeist is putting them now.