Way Too Early preseason college basketball polls from The Athletic and espn.com differ at the top and bottom. Athletic has Alabama, Gonzaga, Houston, Kansas, Iowa St. as the top five while espn has Kansas, Alabama, UConn, Houston, Gonzaga.
Both have only two ACC schools in the Top 25. The Athletic has Duke 6, UNC 12; espn Duke 8, UNC 10.
The bottom five had bigger differences: from espn, 20 Florida, 21 UCLA, 22 Ole Miss, 23 Texas Tech 24 Xavier, 25 Rutgers; from the Athletic 20 Illinois, 21 St Louis, 22 Cincinnati, 23 Xavier, 24 Kentucky, 25 St. John’s.
CSN will have Way Too Early ACC rankings in the July issue.