bentj101's Week Pre-Season Ballot

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Kansas	i think high profile transfers (like dickinson) make a big jump in year two. this roster is really good.
2	Houston	still one of the hardest teams to beat in the country
3	Gonzaga	sorta similar reasoning to kansas, i like this roster to make a jump. they were clicking at the end of the season last year too.
4	Duke	cooper flagg is the real deal. I see top 5 as an end of season destination for this team, but if they struggle early on i'll have them drop accordingly.
5	Baylor	i'm optimistic that scott drew will be successful with this roster
6	Arizona	despite march madness woes this is still a great program
7	Alabama	i never know what to do with bama. i expect good wins and bad losses.
8	Arkansas	i think arkansas as a program is on a big upswing.
9	UConn	uconn lost a lot, i would put them lower but a great coach can hold it together.
10	Purdue	same as uconn but its just the loss of edey. he made this team. wouldn't be surprised if they drop a lot more.
11	Iowa State
12	Texas
13	Clemson
14	Florida
15	North Carolina
16	Kentucky
17	Colorado
18	Auburn
19	Texas A&M
20	San Diego State
21	Virginia
22	Marquette
23	Indiana
24	Cincinnati
25	Illinois

Overall Rationale

It's very hard to do a preseason poll with how many transfers go around nowadays. I tried to look at a combination of roster retention, coaching/playstyle, tournament success, and overall team trajectories. I value game results most of all, so I think my week 2 ballot will look a lot different. I would like to put reasoning down for every team, not just the top 10, and will do that once we can actually get a look at how teams are playing.