UncleSam_HS's Week Pre-Season Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gonzaga | #1 Torvik, EvanMiya// #3 KenPom |
| 2 | North Carolina | Return mostly everyone; lowest predictive is #9 |
| 3 | Houston | Analytic Average of 5.3; Marcus Sasser bump |
| 4 | Kentucky | KenPom #1 + Returning POTY |
| 5 | Baylor | Analytic Average of 4.3 |
| 6 | Tennessee | Same analytic average as Houston |
| 7 | Kansas | Top 10 in analytics, returning Champion |
| 8 | UCLA | Lowest predictive is #15; Tyger Campbell believer |
| 9 | Texas | top 10 in all predictives |
| 10 | Duke | #5 Torvik; 15 KP |
| 11 | Arizona | Just outside top 10 in analytics |
| 12 | TCU | My instinct is they'll finish better than 4th in B12; Personally higher here than predictive average |
| 13 | Creighton | the analytics like them less than I anticipated they would |
| 14 | Indiana | If they even get average 3 pt shooting this should be the conference winner |
| 15 | San Diego State | Top 5 defense in all analytics; decent, but not great NC SOS--could see this being a 28 win team |
| 16 | Virginia | My gut says to lower this, but the analytics says my gut is wrong. |
| 17 | Auburn | Top 15 on KP/EM |
| 18 | Arkansas | 32 on EvanMiya which seems like an outlier. |
| 19 | Villanova | Top 20 in all analytics. Slight fade due to coaching change. |
| 20 | Illinois | This team is better than what the predictives say |
| 21 | Dayton | Top 10 EvanMiya |
| 22 | Iowa | 23.3 Average on analytics. |
| 23 | Alabama | 39 on Torvik has dragged them lower than I expected |
| 24 | Virginia Tech | Top 25 on all analytic sites |
| 25 | Purdue | Highest average ranking for analytics left |
Overall Rationale
It's preseason, so mostly going off of the 3 analytics sites I use while also filtering for outliers/my opinion on rosters.