The Gonzaga Bulldogs open the season ranked as the top team in the nation by Ken Pomeroy, whose rankings are widely considered the holy grail of advanced statistics in college basketball.
Pomeroy is predicting the Zags to own the top offense in the nation as well as the No. 7 ranked defense. The difference in the AdjEM gap between the Zags and the No. 2 Michigan Wolverines is greater than last year’s gap between the Zags and Baylor. (Although we all know how that turned out.)
Pomeroy also gives the Zags a 5.