CBSSports ranks all 351 Division I teams

[tornado]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25331040/cbs-sports-2015-16-ranking-of-every-college-basketball-team-from-1-351

Here's all the Valley teams plus a few others including our future opponents

#5 Virginia (future opponent)
#9 Wichita
#15 Arizona (future opponent)
#31 Boise State (future opponent)
#41 Valparaiso - nice for Alec Peters
#59 Illinois State
#65 Illinois
#68 Ole Miss (future opponent)
#76 Oklahoma State (possible future opponent)
#82 Northwestern
#83 Northern Iowa
#102 Evansville
#111 TCU (future opponent)
#122 Seton Hall (possible future opponent)
#123 Long Beach State (possible future opponent)
#127 Creighton
#128 Loyola (IL)
#176 Indiana State
#177 George Mason (possible future opponent)
#178 Green Bay
#191 Missouri State
#193 Delaware (future opponent)
#194 Drake
#217 Towson (possible future opponent)
#221 SIU
#269 New Orleans (future opponent)
#271 Ball State (future opponent)
#282 Texas-Arlington (future opponent)
#321 Bradley
#328 North Dakota (RPI buster)

[Buesch N Chips]

So there's that.

That means we should win one game.

I think last year we were supposed to win zero.

That is an increase of infinity %. I'll bet no other team is expected to improve that much.

[RoyalShock]

Overall that list wasn't bad, but there's no way Bradley will be that low. I would guess in the 280s. Maybe that doesn't seem like a huge distinction, but 321 is lower half of the SWAC territory. I refuse to believe it.

They also think Daishon Knight is still at ISU.

[tornado]

One of the interesting - and yet predictable things about this ranking is how low Creighton is now viewed by the national media...


They made their move to another conference to get more money - maybe they succeeded but they were once the automatic #1 or #2 in everyone's mind in the MVC...
Top 40 and multiple players always getting preseason recognition...

Now they seem to get far less respect...
Doug McDermott carried them a year but now without Doug, they went 4-14 last year in their new conference -

Now they are picked ninth this season in their conference's preseason poll - even behind DePaul!
..and no player on their roster got mentioned on the Big East 1st Team, 2nd Team, or Honorable Mentions...

What is really interesting in that CBSSports preseason ranking is that now Creighton is only 1 position ahead of LOYOLA, the team that replaced them in the MVC
..wonder if the Big East falls apart in the future with all the big, powerful eastern teams (Villanova, Georgetown..) some day leaving - would Creighton ever come asking to get back in the MVC?

[Tommy]

So there's that.

That means we should win one game.

I think last year we were supposed to win zero.

That is an increase of infinity %. I'll bet no other team is expected to improve that much.

ROFL! Awesome.