In an ordinary time, the ranking of next season's top 25 players would be posted while confetti is still raining down on the winning team in the national championship game. This is no ordinary time, but we can still look ahead with hope.
Oregon coach Kelly Graves and son, Will, a Gonzaga walk-on, were on parallel paths toward NCAA titles. The season didn't end the way either hoped.
Which schools produce the best point guards, sharpshooters, wings, interior scorers, and post defenders? We crunched the historical numbers. Duke and Kentucky fared well.
The NBA draft will play a key role in determining the best in college basketball heading into next season, but an early picture is forming.
We created a bracket of the top four teams on each seed line (64 teams total) since 1994 and looked at which of this year's teams could have threatened to join them.
Kansas is the top-ranked team in the final Associated Press Top 25, followed by Gonzaga and Dayton.
These are some of the March Madness players, teams and stories we won't get to see over the next three weeks.
Selection Sunday 2020 will not take place, but these teams were still in play for a bid before conference tourneys and the NCAA tournament were canceled.
Drew Timme scored 17 points, Filip Petrusev had a double-double and No. 2 Gonzaga beat rival Saint Mary's 84-66 to reclaim the West Coast Conference tournament title Tuesday night.
Joel Ayayi scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half and No. 2 Gonzaga survived a scare to beat San Francisco 81-77 on Monday night in the West Coast Conference tournament semifinals.
| TEAM | CONF | GB | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzaga | 15-1 | - | 31-2 |
| BYU | 13-3 | 2 | 24-8 |
| Saint Mary's | 11-5 | 4 | 26-8 |
| Pacific | 11-5 | 4 | 23-10 |
| San Francisco | 9-7 | 6 | 22-12 |
| Pepperdine | 8-8 | 7 | 16-16 |
| Santa Clara | 6-10 | 9 | 20-13 |
| Loyola Marymount | 4-12 | 11 | 11-21 |
| San Diego | 2-14 | 13 | 9-23 |
| Portland | 1-15 | 14 | 9-23 |
| AP | COACHES |
|---|---|
| 2 | 2 |
| NAME | POS | STATUS | GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jalen Suggs | PG | Committed | 96 |
| Dominick Harris | SG | Signed | 84 |
| Julian Strawther | SF | Signed | 83 |
| Final Fours | 1 |
| Tournament Record | 29-20 |
| Championship Seasons | None |
| Tournament Appearances | 20 |
