📄 2042 EC Hood’s Pre-Season Top 25

Trying to figure out how the game comes up with its Top 25 every year/week has been one of the perplexing things about using Draft Day Sports College Basketball. The preseason Top 25 usually seems to be based on a combination of program prestige, recruiting class strength and perhaps some statistical analysis like player ratings or potential. Success in the early-season tournaments certainly seems to bolster a team’s ranking. But it often seems off.

So, I decided to try my hand at a preseason Top 25 that sets out to reflect the current strength of the CBGM rosters based on nothing other than current star rating and team depth. The EC Hood Preseason Top 25 (sponsor still unfulfilled) was determined using one formula: the total amount of current rating star points for each program’s “Top 8” players.

I’m pretty sure this is flawed because star ratings can be deceiving and also there’s no way Stanford is the ninth-best team in the country.

Note: to break ties, I just went with a personal gut feeling based on quick analysis of the programs.

Is this ranking better than the game’s? Perhaps. Does it matter? Of course not. Enjoy!

The EC Hood 2042 Preseason Top 25

1. Texas
2. Michigan
3. Louisville
4. Notre Dame
5. Maryland
6. Baylor
7. Florida State
8. Georgetown
9. Stanford
10. Butler
11. Kentucky
12. USC
13. LSU
14. VCU
15. Arizona State
16. Kansas State
17. Illinois
18. Marquette
19. Oklahoma State
20. Wichita State
21. BYU
22. Mississippi State
23. Georgia Southern
24. Miami (FL)
25. Incarnate Word

Receiving Votes (just missed the Top 25): Murray State, Alabama, Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado, Akron, Villanova, North Carolina, NC State, Seton Hall, UNLV