CanadianShadow's Week Pre-Season Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | |
| 2 | Kentucky | |
| 3 | Gonzaga | |
| 4 | Kansas | |
| 5 | Texas | |
| 6 | Duke | |
| 7 | Virginia | |
| 8 | Baylor | |
| 9 | Houston | |
| 10 | UCLA | |
| 11 | Tennessee | |
| 12 | Arizona | |
| 13 | Indiana | |
| 14 | Arkansas | |
| 15 | TCU | |
| 16 | Texas Tech | |
| 17 | San Diego State | |
| 18 | Auburn | |
| 19 | Miami (FL) | |
| 20 | Villanova | |
| 21 | Purdue | |
| 22 | Illinois | |
| 23 | Dayton | |
| 24 | Alabama | |
| 25 | Notre Dame |
Overall Rationale
Pre-season is a crapshoot most of the time, but I seriously debated having Kentucky over North Carolina because of how good the Wheeler-Tshiebwe connection was going to be. I think Gonzaga will fail to win a championship again this season because they're so stocked up on offense that they're going to go cold one day and it might end up as their last game of the season. I honestly don't have that much of an opinion on many of these teams except for Miami FL who got Nijel Pack in the offseason and I'm thinking he will become one of the best transfers in the country. It will be interesting to see how teams like Purdue and Illinois react after losing some star power. I definitely don't think the Big 10 will be nearly as good as they have been in previous seasons and I think the ACC is very overdue for a renaissance.