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.
No school has invested more resources into recruiting internationally than Illinois, and that work has paid off in building a really impressive roster with talent from across Europe. Half of Illinois’s projected eight-man rotation played professionally overseas (all, coincidentally, in the Adriatic League) before enrolling in Champaign, Ill. This experiment in modern roster-building will be tracked closely throughout the sport.
