SI’s Preseason Men’s College Basketball Top 25 … and More

By Kevin Sweeney The calendar has officially flipped to November, which means we’re less than a week away from the start of a new college basketball season. With that comes the return of Sports Illustrated’s annual ranking of all 362 teams in men’s Division I college hoops. It’s a massive undertaking that each year produces some prescient takes as well as some ugly ones. Take last season’s rankings, which pegged eventual national runner-up San Diego State as having “legitimate Final Four aspirations” but also tabbed fellow Final Four participant Florida Atlantic outside the preseason top 100 a…

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