Checking in on UConn, Duke, UK one month into NCAA season

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We hope you wrote down all of your preseason predictions in pencil, not pen. Because some of those thoughts that seemed reasonable a month ago -- not so much now.

Take UConn, the two-time champion that has already fallen on hard times after an 0-3 stretch at the Maui Invitational during Thanksgiving week. The Huskies nearly fell out of the national rankings, but more importantly, they've been the subject of widespread doubt about their chances to win a third consecutive national championship.

With UConn's early decline, the path seems open for a new champion, but whom? No team has emerged as the clear front-runner at this point.

In the national player of the year race,…