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NCAA Basketball: Ranking the most thrilling teams to watch in the country

By Carmine Carcieri

Dec 14, 2016; Los Angeles, CA, USA; UCLA Bruins guard Lonzo Ball (2) looks on in the second half against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA won 102-62. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 14, 2016; Los Angeles, CA, USA; UCLA Bruins guard Lonzo Ball (2) looks on in the second half against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA won 102-62. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dec 21, 2016; Greensboro, NC, USA; Duke Blue Devils guard Luke Kennard (5) shoots a three point shot in the second half against the Elon Phoenix at Greensboro Coliseum. Duke defeated Elon 72-61. Mandatory Credit: Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 21, 2016; Greensboro, NC, USA; Duke Blue Devils guard Luke Kennard (5) shoots a three point shot in the second half against the Elon Phoenix at Greensboro Coliseum. Duke defeated Elon 72-61. Mandatory Credit: Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports /

Who are the top NCAA basketball teams to watch during the 2016-17 season?

With 351 programs in Division I college basketball, it sometimes becomes difficult to pick and choose certain games to watch on jammed packed nights of NCAA hoops.

For example, last Saturday’s slate featured multiple top 25 battles and underrated games that could potentially impact the bubble on Selection Sunday. Four Saturday’s ago, UCLA versus Kentucky, West Virginia versus Virginia and Baylor versus Xavier all began their games in a three and a half hour span with other significant games overlapping.

With that in mind, I decided to put together a list of the 10 best teams to watch in all of college basketball for the 2016-17 season.

I recognize the fact that different people enjoy watching different styles of basketball, but the majority of college hoop fans love entertaining transition play, a lot of scoring and rim rattling dunks.

We have seen some outstanding games so far during the non-conference portion of the schedule like Kentucky versus UCLA, Kentucky versus North Carolina, Kentucky versus Louisville, Duke versus Kansas, Baylor versus Louisville and so on. Those games will obviously have a drastic impact on my top 10.

These rankings don’t have anything to do with results in previous seasons. This solely has to do with the watchability of teams at this stage of the college basketball season.

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