College basketball's national championship game was played Monday night, but it's not too early to be thinking ahead. A host of national websites have released their "way-too-early" 2018 preseason rankings, with all of them being bullish on the Wolf Pack.
Here is a look at where some of those sites placed Nevada, which is coming off a 29-8 season, a Mountain West regular-season title and the second appearance in the Sweet 16 in school history.
Nevada in the early rankings
* Ken Pomeroy, 7th
* The Athletic, 9th
* NBC Sports, 9th
* ESPN, 10th
* CBS Sports, 10th
* Sports Illustrated, 11th
* Yahoo!