College basketball predictions: Virginia, TCU and more surprise teams
Preseason rankings are fun, but with so much player movement in the transfer portal era, men’s college basketball is harder than ever to predict. Which is pretty fun, actually! Let football have the same small group of teams competing for the national title every year. We’ll take our surprises like Florida Atlantic, San Diego State and Miami in the Final Four.OK, sure, we like traditional blue bloods in those spots, too. The point here is, there are always teams that sneak up on us despite months of prognosticating. You know who wasn’t ranked by the AP or coaches in the preseason polls a year ago? Big Ten champion Purdue. Or Big East champ Marquette. Or Xavier, which made the Sweet 16. FAU didn’t receive a single vote in either poll.So as we begin our annual preseason predictions, the fir...
