Evan Miya Preseason Ranking

[RuffRuff]

Huskies at 6 - many of our OOC opponents score high.

2025 Team Preseason Projections

Diving into some notable team rankings and projections methodology changes

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[Old blue]

This is all metrics. No eye test. No way michigan is higher then uconn.

 

[WillB4]

Funny how this thread is listed immediately after the "let's get rid of pre-season polls"

 

[FlippinCrazy!]

The Purdue hype is pretty crazy. Everywhere they are a top 3 school, usually #1. We saw how this team played 2 years ago with the same roster minus Edey. Yes they’re 2 years older, but again they don’t have Edey. I just don’t get the Braden Smith hype, at least not consensus preseason NPOY. Kaufman Renn had a really good year last year, but I just think there’s some regression there. Loyer is Loyer. And Kluff is a good addition to round out the roster, but can he hold up when he’s not consistently playing against centers that are 6 inches shorter than him?

Lastly, Omer Mayer hype is off the charts, I guess because he’s international and that shiny mystery people can fantasize about. He’ll be good, I just don’t think a huge impact player year 1.

I think they’ll be top of the polls throughout the season because they’re playing in the annually overrated Big 10 and also have a relatively easy non-conference. But I could easily see this team getting bounced in the elite 8, if not earlier.

 

[uh-no]

The Purdue hype is pretty crazy. Everywhere they are a top 3 school, usually #1. We saw how this team played 2 years ago with the same roster minus Edey. Yes they’re 2 years older, but again they don’t have Edey. I just don’t get the Braden Smith hype, at least not consensus preseason NPOY. Kaufman Renn had a really good year last year, but I just think there’s some regression there. Loyer is Loyer. And Kluff is a good addition to round out the roster, but can he hold up when he’s not consistently playing against centers that are 6 inches shorter than him?

Lastly, Omer Mayer hype is off the charts, I guess because he’s international and that shiny mystery people can fantasize about. He’ll be good, I just don’t think a huge impact player year 1.

I think they’ll be top of the polls throughout the season because they’re playing in the annually overrated Big 10 and also have a relatively easy non-conference. But I could easily see this team getting bounced in the elite 8, if not earlier.

If I thought much of Painter as a coach, I could see it, but I don't. Obviously they got punked as a 1 seed, and that demonstrated how little strategy that team had other than Edey. The next year, they still had only 1 plan....play edey 37 minutes a game or whatever. Which worked fine until they ran into a team that focused on perimeter defense...and they had no answer when edey inevitably tired out. (and before someone argues, edey got something like 17 points in garbage time after the initial spurt in the first 8 minutes or so)

Anyway, point is, i'm not convinced Painter is more than a one hit wonder....and i'm not convinced he got as much as he should have out of the edey teams....and i'm not convinced he's going to get the best out of these teams either.