There are too many college basketball preseason predictions and forecasts to list here, but a comprehensive list put together by Sports Illustrated last week is worth mentioning.
The SI prognostication ranked every NCAA Division I team, from No. 1 (North Carolina) to No. 351 (Grambling State).
Hawai’i came in at a respectable No. 93, which is second among all Big West Conference teams (UC Irvine is No. 86).
What is worth noting is how SI arrived at its rankings. According to the article posted on www.si.com: Our statistical model simulates a given season 10,000 times in order to find the most frequent No.