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There’s three months to go before the start of the 2023-24 college basketball season but the predictions for the top 25 have been coming in since the day after UConn won the title in April.
ESPN recently released a new update to its “Way Too Early Top 25” for the 2023-24 NCAA basketball season. To little surprise, it’s filled to the brim with blue bloods and Kansas got the top spot.
In fact, the only change to the top 10 in the most recent update is that Tennessee has dropped from sixth to eighth, with Houston and Gonzaga sliding up one spot apiece.
Here are the top 10 teams in ESPN’s Way Too Early Top 25:
- Kansas
- Duke
- Purdue
- Michigan State
- UConn
- Houston
- Gonzaga
- Tennessee
- FAU
- Marquette
It will be interesting to see how things play out for Kansas and Houston this year.
This will be Houston’s first year in the Big 12 Conference after effectively ruling the American Athletic Conference for the past five years. If there’s any team in a position to cut Bill Self and the Jayhawks down to size, it’s Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars.
As for the rest of the ranking, there are a ton of teams that were either superb last year or had tremendous recruiting this past offseason.
Who will emerge as the dominant power in college hoops this year?