The current college basketball season hasn’t crowned a champion and The Sporting News already ranked teams for next year. Mike DeCourcy’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2022-2023 dropped on Championship Monday with an acknowledgment of its absurdity. “We carry on, anyway, because we know you’re curious,” DeCourcy wrote.
Now for the wildest part. DeCourcy ranked your University of Kentucky Wildcats first overall in The Sporting News’ debut preseason top 25. He has the Wildcats at No. 1 as long as Oscar Tshiebwe is on the roster; if Tshiebwe leaves, there will be a fall in the rankings, DeCourcy explained.