Blue Ribbon, the college basketball bible, has released their top 25 and preseason all-american awards, the first publication to do so as far as I know.
Their top five -- Arizona, Michigan State, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky -- contains the same teams as my top five will, only in a different order. The only crazy ranking that I see in their top 25 comes with Miami checking in at No. 16. I have a feeling they are going to end up regretting that by the end of the season.
What is somewhat crazy, however, is Blue Ribbon’s all-american teams.
Bonzie Colson is their Preseason National Player of the Year. That’s not my pick, but it’s justifiable. But having Miles Bridges as a second-team preseason all-american? Angel Delgado as a fourth-team preseason all-american? I disagree with both of those picks.
But that will all play out during the season.
And, frankly, I haven’t exactly had the best track record predicting all-americans in recent years, not after I opted to rate Skal Labissiere as a first-team preseason all-american over Buddy Hield.
That was a miss.
It happens to the best of us.
But I feel pretty comfortable saying that Miles Bridges as a second-team preseason all-american will end up being a miss.