The time has come…
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We’re going to lose
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Who wins it all?
Going outside the box and taking Kansas. Darryn Peterson plus Elmarko comeback.
Betting big on Jersey guards who missed last season
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Purdue. Team Continuity in the era of full roster turnover.
I was going to go Houston, but they are pretty unproven once you go beyond their returning starters.
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With Houston, I wonder if they’ve diluted the formula too much (23 year old 6-8 monsters with Ja in their names)
I wonder if Purdue has the top end talent (tho I wondered this about Florida too).
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I’m going for a dark horse… UTSA.
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Love a good interrobang
There actually is a mildly interesting story about how they went from pan American to UTSA, but I don’t know it
My brother-in-law went there when it was just a commuter school. It has grown in a similar path to how VCU grew from a commuter school to building dorms, adding sports teams to include football about a decade ago, to cleaning up their campus quite a bit… it’s becoming a nice little campus in San Antonio.
Also… VCU needs to add football.
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Give me Purdue. Painter finally over the hump. Houston lost a bit too much for me.
Like the Kansas pick @haney it sounds like Peterson is the real deal.
I also like Kentucky and TTU.
BYU, Arkansas, and Florida will underperform.
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Apologies, pan American became UT Rio grande valley (UTRGV)
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Let’s go with …. ~gestures randomly~ … Florida!
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Give me Houston finally getting it done over NPOY JT Toppin and Texas Tech. Duke and UConn round out the final four.
also really like Kansas, I would’ve had Kentucky up there but they looked anemic against my Hoyas (granted with multiple injuries)
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Texas Tech and Uconn
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Florida goes back to back. Just think their frontcourt is too good and gives them the highest floor of any team.
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I think Sampson finally gets his ring…and he deserves it, imo.
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Not buying Braden Smith as the best player in college basketball, per CBS? Or TKR at #7?
Purdue winning it all. Just placed a crisp $10 future on it, way ahead of the typical week 6 AP poll national champion futures that I usually do.
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Typically, the natty winners have a lottery pick type guy. And/or multiple NBA top 40ish picks.
It holds up pretty well for most natty winners but didn’t work last year. I think it helped that Clayton played at that level even tho he had NBA dings against him (size, I guess).
Sam V has Smith at 28 and TKR at 60. Is that enough ? We shall see
Purdue also has front court depth concerns outside of TKR
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Okay, apparently Clayton went 18 last year? Shows I didn’t pay attention to the draft last year… not lottery but pretty close
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Purdue is super deep this year. Their 2nd 5 could finish the middle of the pack in the BIG. They may not have a lottery pick on their team but they have multiple elite college guys in their starting lineup (similar to Florida last year), and just a ton of useful depth.
They also have a couple freshmen in Omer Mayer (Israeli pg) and Daniel Jacobson (Post player who plays for Team USA), who could be future stars but are backing up All-Americans in the starting lineup.
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