📄 2045 EC Hood’s Pre-Season Top 25

The annual EC Hood CBGM Preseason Top 25 takes a preseason snapshot of the rosters of every top team and comes up with a simple formula to end up with a Top 25 ranking. Every team’s top eight players by star ratings are added up. That’s it. Your score determines your ranking.

If there was a tie, I just went with my own feeling on the team. A couple of AI programs are looking strong in Duke and Colorado, otherwise the entire Top 25 is human-owned. Incarnate Word paces the mid majors at No. 16 and should have a dominant year in the Southland.

Without further ado…

The EC Hood 2044-45 Preseason Top 25

1. Louisville
2. Maryland
3. Notre Dame
4. VCU
5. Baylor
6. Butler
7. BYU
8. Florida State
9. Seton Hall
10. San Diego State
11. Saint Mary’s
12. Stanford
13. Duke
14. Iowa
15. Alabama
16. Incarnate Word
17. Minnesota
18. Michigan
19. Colorado
20. Syracuse
21. Marquette
22. St. Bonaventure
23. Rhode Island
24. Penn State
25. Murray State

Receiving Votes (just missed the Top 25): Connecticut, Oklahoma State, Texas, Tennessee, LSU, Xavier, Michigan State, Princeton, Indiana State, App State.