Every year, it seems, preseason prognosticators will go gaga over a team on the basis that said team is adding some highly-touted recruits. Kentucky and Duke perennially turn over just about the entire roster and yet those teams are ranked fifth and fourth, respectively, in Rob Dauster’s preseason top 25 over at NBC Sports.
But even a team like LSU, which is adding the country’s fourth-ranked recruiting class per 247 Sports, checks in at #23 in that ranking in spite of being an NIT team last year. Read this blurb:
LSU is really young.