The Blue Ribbon Basketball Yearbook is the annual publication that comprehensively compiles the thoughts of each Division I programs’s head coaches, as told to veteran area writers.
Generally, it’s a good sense of where the coaches feel their teams will be at the end of the year, and a person can learn a sense of a team that an experienced head coach is really excited for... and the teams a coach knows will have real struggles, the kind of teams that lead the coach to quietly think “next year will be better.”
Sometimes, once can get a feel of the depth of the problems by reading the previews of other programs.