YellowSkarmory's Week Pre-Season Ballot

Rank	Team	Reason
1	UConn	b2b national champions, #1 until proven otherwise (or until i start ignoring previous season's results in the first actual poll of the year)
2	Houston
3	Kansas
4	Tennessee
5	Alabama
6	Arizona
7	Baylor
8	Duke
9	Iowa State
10	Auburn
11	Gonzaga
12	Creighton
13	North Carolina
14	San Diego State
15	Marquette
16	Illinois
17	Kentucky
18	Saint Mary's
19	Michigan State
20	Texas
21	Texas Tech
22	Purdue
23	TCU
24	St. John's
25	South Florida	amir abdul-rahim is a wizard

Overall Rationale

i basically know nothing about returning players so i'm just guessing based off which programs have done well the past few years. we'll see how it goes. i think this has a fair bit of merit because a lot of these teams seem to just always do well but who knows we'll see