NCAA Basketball: Busting Brackets’ opening top 25
By Doug Winkey
After a week of high-octane NCAA basketball, there is quite a bit of movement in our first top 25 of the year.
Has anyone had a heart palpations yet? This season has been full of tight contests and stunning finishes worthy of late March, not mid-November. A top 25 team went down on opening night and several games have gone right down to the wire. There will definitely be some shakeups in projected contenders in the short term.
That said, we haven’t learned a great deal about some teams. Squads like Michigan State and Duke are battling injuries that are preventing them from hitting their ceiling. In the same vein, conference contenders like Syracuse and UCLA have skated past subpar competition. We won’t know squads’ true talent levels for a week or two more.
That shouldn’t stop us from rankings though! The season is barely two weeks old, but there is still plenty to digest and unpack. Based on what I’ve seen already this November, I have no doubt we are just glimpsing what the season holds.