flightsim9fan's Week Pre-Season Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houston | Most complete team |
| 2 | Purdue | Not as high on braden smith |
| 3 | Florida | |
| 4 | St. John's | Zuby |
| 5 | Duke | Boozer is special, rest of team compliments him well |
| 6 | BYU | AJ is AJ |
| 7 | Michigan | |
| 8 | UConn | |
| 9 | Kansas | Darryn Peterson is Kobe 2.0 |
| 10 | Kentucky | |
| 11 | Arkansas | Acuff is so underrated as a prospect |
| 12 | Texas Tech | |
| 13 | Arizona | |
| 14 | UCLA | |
| 15 | Tennessee | Ament |
| 16 | Alabama | Labaron is an NPOY candidate imo, he is going to shine |
| 17 | Illinois | Literally a euroleague team in the best way possible |
| 18 | Auburn | Even with bruce gone, I feel his son will pick up where he left off |
| 19 | Gonzaga | Without TGF, I cant rank them any higher |
| 20 | Iowa State | They need Lipsey to play to his potentiall for them to be ranked any higher |
| 21 | NC State | Criminally underrated |
| 22 | North Carolina | |
| 23 | Michigan State | |
| 24 | Louisville | This team hinges on brown being good, and after watching the scrimmage against KU, I feel he may be too “ball needy” for the rest of the team to truly shine. They will get it together however. |
| 25 | Kansas State | Very incomplete team but I feel the talent of haggerty plus the other two “stars” on the team will carry this squad |
Overall Rationale
Preseason expectations plus overall “dawg” factor was my main rationale for this poll. It is hard to predict who is going to shine and who isnt just based off of rumblings around practice and scrimmages, but I feel this poll truly represents the top 25 best teams at the moment. We will see how the season shakes out however.