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We are now just three days away from the beginning of college basketball’s regular season – now that the preseason polls from all 32 conferences have been released along with the preseason AP and Coaches’ polls, we have our annual preseason media bracket ready to be unveiled. The teams are sorted by average order of where they were slotted in the polls and single-bid UTR conferences are represented by the teams picked to win their respective conferences.
Every team above the first four (including UTR teams Liberty and Harvard) received votes in both the AP and Coaches’ polls; the teams in the First Four (Missouri, Cincinnati, Notre Dame and Wisconsin) were the top vote-getters that only appeared in one of the respective polls apiece.
And without further ado:
This is also the first season I can remember where the four teams in the Champions Classic (Michigan State, Kansas, Duke and Kentucky) are the top four teams in the preseason polls! Couple that with the ACC opening the regular season with conference games for everyone else and you’ve got a helluva Opening Night.
Also keep in mind that Gonzaga is eligible to play in Spokane since Idaho is the host institution for first and second round games being played at Spokane Arena this year. If these subregions ever came to fruition, good luck trying to get tickets if you’re not a resident in the Pacific Northwest.