leprachaun77's Week Pre-Season Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas | Hunter Dickinson and a lot of returners |
| 2 | Purdue | Returning players and hopefully not an offense that lets you triple team Edey |
| 3 | Michigan State | |
| 4 | UConn | |
| 5 | Duke | |
| 6 | Marquette | |
| 7 | Arizona | |
| 8 | Florida Atlantic | Bringing back all 5 starters from a final 4 team, hard to rank them lower. |
| 9 | Tennessee | Bringing in some offense to a team that can definity play defense. Not sure about the Zeigler status though |
| 10 | Texas | 3 returning starters and adding Max Abmas to an elite 9 team. BIG 12 champions |
| 11 | Houston | Lossing Sasser and Mark were the backbone, Cryer is a good replacement but Sasser kinda built the program |
| 12 | Kentucky | Great recruiting class, slow start to the season expected but good team. Cal is not great though. |
| 13 | Miami (FL) | Bringing back 2 great piece's from a final 4 team that lost to the champ |
| 14 | Creighton | Ashworth is good enough to justify thinking they'll be similar to last year |
| 15 | Gonzaga | |
| 16 | USC | Boogie Ellis and Collier are good enough to get a preseason top 20 |
| 17 | Alabama | Lost alot of pieces', decent transfers and a strong belief in Nate Oats puts them at 17 |
| 18 | Auburn | Broome and Williams are back. |
| 19 | North Carolina | Davis and Bacot back is good, but this team was a mess and the transfers are underwhelming |
| 20 | Kansas State | I like the returning members and the coaching staff. 3rd in the BIG 12 is pretty good |
| 21 | Arkansas | Starting from scratch, good coach. Don't think Battle is very good at all. |
| 22 | San Diego State | Lost too many piece's |
| 23 | UCLA | Almost a whole new team, the new blood is to chaotic it could work out. The coaching staff got them to the top of the PAC 12, maybe they can do it one last time |
| 24 | Villanova | Not super impressed with the transfers and finished 17-17 last year |
| 25 | Baylor | Langston Love is holding them here. Don't believe in transfers or freshman. |
Overall Rationale
The rationale was a balance of transfers and recruiting class values. In almost all cases a returning player would be viewed more highly than a transfer due to how a new player will change roles and take time to get accustomed to a new system. Abmas and Dickinson are definitely viewed as the most significant transfers. St. Johns has too much to change to make the list but they are probably the most likely to get onto it in the near future.