What early polls inform us concerning the eventual 2023 males’s faculty basketball champion

The Related Press launched their preseason High 25 this week, marking the official begin to 2022-2023 males’s faculty basketball season. 4 groups obtained first-place votes and a complete of 44 groups appeared on ballots, highlighting the extent of parity that we’ve got within the sport. That is the primary of many information factors to digest for the school basketball season, and whereas it’s only October, it is by no means too early to start out excited about what the bracket will seem like in March.

In fact, a lot will change between now and the crowning of our 2023 champion, however utilizing historical past as a information, this primary set of information does maintain some long-term worth. Here is what we all know over the previous 10 tournaments:

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• The typical season sees the preseason High 25 groups rack up 39.5 March Insanity wins (play-in video games don’t depend)

• 84% of groups within the preseason High 25 make the event

• The typical preseason rating of the nationwide champion is 5.9 (the final staff to win a title when ranked worse than sixth within the preseason ballot was the 2015-16 Villanova Wildcats led by Josh Hart)

Whereas we do not “know” something, latest information means that certainly one of these top-six groups will possible win the ultimate sport of the season, and 4 of the groups from the above listing might not hear their identify known as on Choice Sunday (144 days away, however who’s counting?).