Baylor still No. 1 in Way-Too-Early Top 25 update for 2020-21

[Halldan1]

Kentucky climbs to No. 5, Baylor still No. 1 in Way-Too-Early Top 25 update for 2020-21

We're less than a month from the start of the 2020-21 college basketball season. Kentucky, which received some good transfer news last week, makes a move in our latest ranking.

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  Jeff BorzelloESPN Staff Writer

On March 21, we released our first Way-Too-Early Top 25 for the 2020-21 college basketball season. Everything has changed in the seven months since then, and obviously we're not just talking about the sport itself. For long stretches of the offseason, it looked like we might not ever get to a college basketball season, and if we did, it would be an extremely condensed season -- one that might not feature nonconference games.

And while it's not going to be a smooth ride until the Nov. 25 start date, we're officially less than one month away from the first games of the 2020-21 college basketball season.

Several things have changed since that initial top 25 -- Creighton was No. 2, for example, while San Diego State and Colorado were also ranked before NBA draft departures. However, the tumultuous past several months have left us with similar storylines to what we projected the first few weeks of the offseason. Baylor, Gonzaga and Villanova are the national championship favorites (in some order); Iowa's Luka Garza is the overwhelming preseason favorite to win the Wooden Award; Kentucky started at No. 5 and ended at No. 5, with plenty of personnel losses and fluctuation in between; and the Big Ten will be the toughest league in the country.

Time to dig into the preseason top 25. Thankfully, it's no longer way too early. We're almost there......................

 

[radecicco]

OMG, Rutgers not in another Top 25.

 

[Halldan1]

Next in line
UConn Huskies (previous: Unranked)
Rutgers Scarlet Knights (previous: Next in line)
Memphis Tigers (previous: Unranked)
Louisville Cardinals (previous: Next in line)
Indiana Hoosiers (previous: Next in line)

Dropped out
Arkansas Razorbacks (previous: Next in line)
Richmond Spiders (previous: Next in line)

 

[radecicco]

Yes Dan, I saw that, but supposedly they were a sure fire top 20 preseason ranking this year. Suddenly, not so much.

Dan, on a personal note, glad your back active on the board but don’t push it. Long term perspective.