This is admittedly a really stupid exercise given that it’s not very easy to project how these teams will look in six months, but everyone does it anyway, so as your full-service college basketball service provider, we feel obligated to disseminate the information for you. Send us more links as they come available and we’ll add them to the list.
Update: here are some insanely too early all-americans for 2009-10, courtesy of CHN.
Update 2: here are the new aggregate rankings, taking into account Parrish, Goodman and Katz’s rankings.
Note: for the aggregate ranking, we only aggregated the top ten, and teams that were named on every list were ranked higher than those ranked on all but one, all but two, etc. Then teams were ranked within that criterion (ie, KU, Syracuse, MSU and Purdue were each ranked by all five lists, but UNC was only ranked on four).
Some very quick notes on these rankings:
- Clearly most everyone thinks Kansas is going to keep Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich around for another year. Fair pick there, but Pete Thamel at the NYT must think differently in that regard.
- Same thing with Syracuse and Jonny Flynn.
- North Carolina will probably lose Lawson and Ellington, but we all know they’ll still be a top ten team next year. Undoubtedly Vitale would have had them there if he’d bothered to list more than five teams.
- Duke will likely lose G-Henderson, but they’ll have more than enough coming back and entering the program to keep themselves squarely in the top 10. Not sure what the NYT and Chicago Tribune are thinking there.
- Wake Forest and Kentucky are wildcards at this point. Wake could end up losing both Al-Farouq Aminu and Jeff Teague, which would put the Deacs back in the NIT, while Kentucky could end up with largely the same team it had last year if none of the top recruits follow Calipari to Lexington. These are two huge stay-tuneds.
- People overrate Tourney performance. Texas, UCLA, Cal, Texas A&M… even Florida should be strong next year. St. Mary’s if they keep Patty Mills and Davidson if they keep Stephen Curry as well.