If not for the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the national championship game would be taking place tonight in Atlanta. And while it's tough to predict what will take place in the upcoming 12 months, that hasn't stopped various outlets in the national media from predicting the early preseason top-25 polls for the 2020-21 men's college basketball campaign.
And while the predictions in no ways guarantee success, a look at those polls has Creighton expected to be among the national elite. Of the seven outlets that had a ranked list of 25 teams or more, each had Creighton selected in the top-six.