The end of one college basketball season brings the start of a new one, and with that a bevy of way-too-early preseason polls.
The activity of ranking college basketball teams for the upcoming season on the heels of the NCAA Tournament is often a fool’s errand, given the fluidity of rosters as players announce their intentions to play professionally or transfer over the coming weeks and months. These rankings do give a glimpse though of who is perceived to be among the top returning teams for the next season.
Spoiler alert: Arizona is one of them.
Wildcats coach Tommy Lloyd will enter his second year with a team considered to be in the national title picture and for good reason.