Sadly enough, the pandemic that ended the 2019–20 season abruptly on March 12 continues to rage at even higher numbers today. But college basketball is pushing forward, perhaps heedlessly, into a season that begins with approximately a million games Wednesday.
There will be postponements, cancellations and quite likely widespread chaos as the season attempts to lift off. Then there is the prospect of trying to land safely in March.
While all those twists and turns await, SI has produced a men’s preseason Top 25 for the least-predictable season any of us has ever seen: