CBSSports.com’s Kyle Boone Has No. 13 Indiana on His ‘Overrated’ List

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Kyle Boone from CBSSports.com takes a whole lot of pleasure in his evaluation of the Related Press High-25 school basketball ballot, and he does not thoughts patting himself on the again for calling out three groups that he mentioned have been overrated within the first ballot of the 12 months.

This 12 months, he is doing the identical factor — and has No. 13-ranked Indiana on his checklist of overrated groups. 

“Somebody has to step up within the Massive Ten this season and there’s no clear and apparent decide, therefore an uncommon quantity of preseason Hoosiers love,” Boone wrote. “Whereas Indiana may very properly be the most effective of the league, No. 13 within the AP ballot feels extraordinarily beneficiant. Sure, Trayce-Jackson Davis is again, as are many of the workforce’s starters. (Plus, freshman Jalen Hood Schifino has star potential.) 

“However this workforce simply narrowly made the NCAA Event final season as a 12 seed. Anticipating them to make the leap to No. 1 within the Massive Ten is kind of the ask. It is more likely IU finishes the season unranked than it finishes because the winner of the Massive Ten.”

Boone’s different two overrated groups are literally on Indiana’s schedule. He additionally thinks that No. 1 North Carolina and No. 5 Kansas are getting far an excessive amount of love too after assembly within the NCAA championship sport final 12 months. (Kansas gained.) Indiana performs North Carolina in Bloomington on Nov. 30 as a part of the ACC/Massive Ten Problem and performs at Kansas on Dec. 17.

This is what Boone mentioned about UNC: “Like UCLA final 12 months, the magical NCAA Event run it’s coming off of has skewed the fact of what it actually was final season: which was a just-OK workforce that bought actually scorching finish of 12 months. Keep in mind: UNC at one level final season did not even appear to be it might be a tourney workforce. It needed to catch fireplace down the stretch and finally bought in as a No. 8 seed. The return of 4 of 5 starters from its NCAA runner-up roster makes UNC a simple decide right here, however UCLA’s comparable trajectory over the past two years ought to function a cautionary story for the Tar Heels and expectations surrounding them this season. Good workforce, not the No. 1 workforce.”

And on Kansas, he thinks they’ve misplaced far an excessive amount of expertise off of final 12 months’s title workforce to be thought of a top-five workforce. 

“KU misplaced not solely Remaining 4 MOP Ochai Agbaji (and the true Remaining 4 MOP, David McCormack), but in addition Christian Braun and Remy Martin. It has some good incoming items led by Gradey Dick and Texas tech switch Kevin McCullar, however I am not satisfied that is positively a top-two workforce within the Massive 12 — a lot much less a top-five workforce nationally.”

Preseason polls are nice for dialog and so they create the fodder for wonderful October tales. Simply because Boone was proper about UCLA, Kentucky and Oregon final 12 months does not imply he’ll be proper this 12 months.

I do assume Indiana is the most effective workforce within the Massive Ten this 12 months, and have an excellent shot at successful the league title for the primary time since 2016. There are many challengers, so it is not a lock for certain.

However the place Boone is flawed is that Indiana will not even be ranked on the finish of the 12 months. Except there are main damage points, I am very assured that the Hoosiers will likely be ranked all 12 months.

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