There is no AP preseason top 25 yet, but here’s one guess at what it might look like when it arrives next month.

(This is not my top 25. This is a forecast of how my colleagues will vote in the AP top 25. I figured, why stop at 10?)

1.  North Carolina
2.  Maryland
3.  Kentucky
4.  Kansas
5.  Iowa State
6.  Virginia
7.  Duke
8.  Oklahoma
9.  Villanova
10. Wichita State
11. Gonzaga
12. Arizona
13. Michigan State
14. Indiana
15. California
16. Wisconsin
17. Baylor
18. Michigan
19. SMU
20. Utah
21. Georgetown
22. Notre Dame
23. Cincinnati
24. LSU
25. Butler

Others receiving votes: Louisville, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, West Virginia, NC State,
Xavier, Purdue, Florida State, Miami, Oregon, Connecticut. 

Other things being equal, in any given preseason it should be easier to forecast Nos. 1 through 15 or so, than, say, 16 through 25. Anyway, we’ll see how I do.