Through Oct. 31, Sports Illustrated will count down its preseason college basketball Top 25 with overviews of each team. Here are the full rankings so far.
Arizona has been firmly in college basketball’s elite tier ever since Tommy Lloyd took over in 2021. Lloyd is 4 for 4 in finishing in the top 15 of KenPom’s national rankings, with no worse than a No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament and three Sweet 16 berths. The next step is a big breakthrough in March. This year marks the 25th season since the Wildcats’ last Final Four in 2001. Arizona has the talent to go beyond the second weekend of the Dance, but can Lloyd get a ton of fresh faces clicking at the right time for that deep run?
