Sports Illustrated counted down its preseason college basketball Top 25 with overviews of each team. The series concludes today. Here are the full rankings.
Houston has been knocking on the door of a national championship for a half-decade, with five straight top-five KenPom finishes and four years in a row finishing No. 2 nationally. Last season was painfully close, leading Florida for much of the national championship game before the Gators surged ahead late to steal the title. The Cougars have done everything right in their pursuit of Kelvin Sampson’s elusive first national championship, but from brutal late-season injuries to bad luck to just getting beat by another elite team, they’ve come up short every time.
