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Take it to Vegas: Preseason Rankings and Tourney Predictions

Before or around the time every season begins, we like to attempt to take our turns being the national pundits and make a few predictions of our own.  In this post you will find our Preseason Top 25's, below, and our NCAA Tournament predictions from the Sweet Sixteen onwards after the jump.  There will probably be plenty of points of contention.  I can already see some now with both of our rankings and tournament projections.  We'd love to see some of our readers chip in and offer up their Top 10 or 25 teams or even their Final Four when it is all said and done.  The great thing about this post is that it can be erased once March rolls around...or even next week just in case our Top 25's get blown up!  We hope you enjoy...

Rank
Zach B
Everydayezag
1 Kansas Kansas
2 Texas Texas
3 Villanova Villanova 
4 Purdue West Virginia
5 Michigan State North Carolina
6 Kentucky Michigan State
7 West Virginia Butler
8 North Carolina Tennessee
9 Butler Mississippi State
10 Tennessee Kentucky
11 Michigan Purdue
12 Connecticut  Georgia Tech
13 Oklahoma  Cincinnati 
14 Duke Duke
15 California Connecticut
16 Mississippi State Washington
17 Georgia Tech Georgetown
18 Ohio State Cal
19 Washington Ohio State
20 Illinois Clemson
21 Georgetown Michigan
22 Maryland Gonzaga
23 Gonzaga Oklahoma
24 Dayton Siena
25 Vanderbilt Dayton

 

continue reading after the jump for our tournament predictions...

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EDZ's Tourney Predictions from Sweet Sixteen onward (there is no order to the teams or pairings, just our guesses about what teams will be there)

Sweet Sixteen
Elite Eight
Final Four
National Title
Champion
Kansas



Texas



Georgetown



Cincinnati 



Kentucky Kansas 


Georgia Tech Texas


Butler Cincinnati Kansas

Villanova Butler Texas Kansas
Clemson Villanova Georgetown Villanova

Villanova

Kansas St.  Kansas State Villanova

Mississippi St. Mississippi St.


Michigan St. Georgetown


Gonzaga



North Carolina



Connecticut 



Siena



 

Zach B's Tourney Predictions from the Sweet Sixteen onward...

Sweet Sixteen
Elite Eight
Final Four
National Title
Champion
Kansas 



Texas



Villanova



Purdue



Michigan St. Kansas


Kentucky Texas


West Virginia Villanova Texas

Butler Purdue Purdue Texas

Texas

Oklahoma Kentucky Villanova Villanova
Mississippi St. West Virginia West Virginia

Washington Oklahoma


Maryland Siena


Siena



Notre Dame



North Carolina



Syracuse




 

There's bound to be plenty of disagreement!  Share your thoughts with us below in the comments.

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A few points of contention..

Zach B: What’s with your love of Purdue. Regardless of how much experience and talent they accrue, they will always find a way to screw themselves. A final four for them is simply not a possibility. Also, I think you both might be underestimating the abilities of a Kentucky team that’s in a fairly weak SEC. Not only will they have a great regular season, but I see them meeting tournament expectations.

Zagnificent - GU Class of 2011

by Zagnificent on Nov 11, 2009 8:38 AM PST reply actions  

Purdue

Love their starting lineup. Think it might be one of the best in the country. Hummel and JaJuan Johnson make up one of the most formidable frontcourts in the country. I really think Johnson is poised for a big time breakout year as long as he gets a bit tougher in the post. E’Twaun Moore is a very good point guard and Chris Kramer is a great defender and a scrappy guard. I’m a bit worried about their overall depth but they have some talented freshmen coming in and they’ll have to step. I think they have the talent overall. I absolutely don’t think a final four for them is impossible. I think we’ve all learned over the years in March Madness that every team can make a run. Especially when you have a coach like Matt Painter, who is one of the best young coaches in the nation, anything can happen.

Mike, as for Duke, I’m still a bit concerned by their talent level overall. Nolan Smith has great potential playing the off guard, Scheyer is not a pure point guard but he makes good enough decisions to do so. The big tester will be their bigs. The Plumlee brothers will have to play great basketball for them to be a top ten team because I don’t think Lance Thomas or Brian Zoubek have the offensive ability to score enough in the low blocks. Obviously Kyle Singler is the reason they are as high as they are but we’ll just have to see. It’s a very new look Duke team for having all the same cast of characters. Lots of guys in new spots on the floor so they’ll be an interesting team to watch.

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by Zach Bell on Nov 11, 2009 10:00 AM PST up reply actions  

ZB/EDZ

Have you seen jolt’n Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology? Zags-9! 7 Big10? UCLA a 5? That puts them in the top 20 in the Country? If Joe gets paid for his guesses shouldn’t you and EDZ?

by mikesequim on Nov 11, 2009 11:03 AM PST up reply actions  

Thought you might like that

Hell, if they beat the Zags in a scrimmage, they gotta be good!

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by Zach Bell on Nov 11, 2009 3:16 PM PST up reply actions  

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