After a wild 2019-20 season, with an even crazier ending, it’s time to look ahead at next season. CBB Review gives their shot at a way too early college basketball top 25.
Team, (Total Votes), (First Place Votes)
- Villanova (245) (7)
- Gonzaga (228) (3)
- Baylor (224)
- Virginia (204)
- Kansas (197)
- Duke (184)
- Michigan State (169)
- Kentucky (165)
- Iowa (163)
- Tennessee (149)
- Creighton (143)
- Houston (143)
- Texas Tech (134)
- Wisconsin (123)
- North Carolina (107)
- Arizona State (92)
- Florida State (88)
- West Virginia (85)
- Texas (53)
- Rutgers (52)
- Ohio State (41)
- Stanford (35)
- Oregon (33)
- Florida (30)
- Michigan (27)
Other Teams Receiving Votes: UCLA (24), San Diego State (20), Richmond (17), LSU (16), Louisville (16), Indiana (11), Arkansas (9), Colorado (9), USC (8), Seton Hall (3), Purdue (2), Saint Louis (2), Auburn (1)
Voters: Ariel Puterman, Ben Hall, Collin Speicher, Jake Lieberman, Jordan Pardo, Mat Mlodzinski, Nick Musial, Nikhil Binny, Sam Bass, and Shannon Boy
[…] Just from these schools being closed, the Power 6 conferences would look very different. The Pac 12 would lose 4 teams, the Big East would lose 4, the Big 10 3 as well. The mid-majors would also get hit very heavily, with a lot of the east coast based conferences taking hard hits. Pennsylvania and Michigan also have over 50,000 cases as of right now, which would mean we’d lose three more Big 10 schools in Penn State, Michigan, and Michigan State, and another Big East school and a preseason favorite for college basketball in Villanova. […]