University of Kansas Logopantherhawk17's Ballot for Preseason of 2016-17

Submitted on Monday, October 24, 2016 at 3:22PM EDT
RankTeamReason
1 Duke University Logo Duke Even if Giles doesn't play a single game this year, I think Duke has the best roster construction.
2 University of Kansas Logo Kansas
3 Villanova University Logo Villanova
4 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky
5 Xavier University Logo Xavier This is probably higher than most. I think Sumner will be amazing this season.
6 University of Oregon Logo Oregon I'm not sure where to put Oregon given Brooks' status. I would have them ahead of UK if he was healthy.
7 University of Virginia Logo Virginia
8 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Logo North Carolina
9 University of Wisconsin-Madison Logo Wisconsin I didn't think I would have Wisconsin in my top 10, but I'm running out of teams I think are better.
10 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana Big questions around losing Yogi. This ranking is about my expectations for Bryant.
11 University of Louisville Logo Louisville
12 Michigan State University Logo Michigan State Injuries and the lack of bodies in the post makes me really unsure about this ranking. Plus they're young. May be some growing pains early.
13 Ohio State University Logo Ohio State I was planning on having Ohio State up here and figured I would be way out on a limb. Then KenPom decided to make this seem less crazy.
14 University of Arizona Logo Arizona Some new faces and some rumors make me pretty unsure where to put Arizona. This is kind of splitting the difference for me.
15 Purdue University Logo Purdue
16 University of Texas at Austin Logo Texas I think Texas will be #2 in the Big 12, but they have some serious PG questions without Taylor. This could look bad in 3 months.
17 Syracuse University Logo Syracuse
18 West Virginia University Logo West Virginia
19 University of California, Los Angeles Logo UCLA
20 University of Florida Logo Florida
21 Texas A&M University Logo Texas A&M
22 Iowa State University Logo Iowa State
23 University of Cincinnati Logo Cincinnati
24 North Carolina State University Logo NC State We'll see if NC State can finally not disappoint when we all expect them to be decent.
25 University of Maryland, College Park Logo Maryland I actually think Melo Trimble being the guy can be beneficial for Maryland. But they will need to find other contributors somewhere