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Nevada basketball a consensus top 15 team in nation in 'way too early rankings'

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!