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Five Teams Off to Disappointing Starts, and What It Means for Their Season Outlook

Indiana and Kentucky are among the programs that have fallen short of preseason expectations.

The top two teams in the most recent men’s AP poll entered the season unranked, and those two programs (Purdue and UConn) have been discussed at length in recent weeks. But for those teams to rise, someone had to fall, and several teams pegged for elite seasons in the preseason have yet to put it all together. Here’s a look at five of the most disappointing teams in the country, what’s gone wrong and what the outlook is for turning things around

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