College basketball power rankings: Arizona is No. 1, and Oklahoma cracks top 10
New York TimesRead The Athletic’s latest college basketball power rankings. The East Carolina transfer was a nice piece on UConn’s title team last season — if you consider 19 points, 10 rebounds, four assists, and two steals in the national championship game “nice” — but he’s in full-blown superstar mode now, and currently slots fifth in KenPom’s too-early Player of the Year rankings. Some impressive metrics — Illinois is one of just 11 teams with a top-25 adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency, per KenPom — don’t hurt, either. With the midseason addition of Kansas State transfer Nae’Qwan Tomlin, who started every game for an Elite Eight team last season, the Tigers’ top eight players are all at least 22 years old — average age: 23 — with a combined 712 career Division I games played, 375 starts, 15,772 minutes played and 6,929 points scored heading into this week. No disrespect intended, but this season’s Gaels haven’t been as strong as Randy Bennett’s last two teams — which finished 17th and 13th in KenPom’s year-end efficiency rankings, respectively — and sit just 5-5, with a sub-100 offense and a home loss to Weber State, KenPom’s 124th-ranked team.
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