This will be my fourth season on the beat covering college basketball — the Colorado Buffaloes in particular and the Pac-12 Conference in general. This was far and away the most curious I have been to see the results of the league's preseason media poll.
Here is how I voted this year, with each team's actual finish in parenthesis.
1. Oregon (1): The Ducks' vaunted recruiting class, ranked third in the nation by 247Sports.com, includes a pair of one-and-done candidates in Louis King and Bol Bol, the 7-foot-2 son of the late former NBA player Manute Bol.