2020-21 men’s college basketball preview: Preseason picks, rankings, complete coverage

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The 2020-21 college basketball season is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Nov. 25. As the countdown continues, ESPN will make sure you’re prepared with breakdowns of the national picture, all the highest-profile leagues and the top stars from coast to coast.

National rankings/predictions/other coverage

• Borzello: Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2020-21

• Lunardi: Updated Bracketology for 2020-21

• Vitale: Dickie V’s Top 40 for the 2020-21 preseason

• Vitale: Dickie V’s 2020-21 preseason All-Americans

• Schlabach: Your guide to college basketball’s ongoing NCAA investigations

• Lunardi: How playing the NCAA tournament at one location impacts Bracketology

• Class Rankings: Michigan overtakes Oregon for No. 1 spot

• Gasaway: Fatal flaws for every Way-Too-Early Top 25 team

• Gasaway: Teams, players who will make a leap in 2020-21

• Borzello: Who’s on the hot seat for 2020-21, and who’s next

• Gasaway: National, conference records that could fall in 2021 and beyond

• Borzello: Second-year coaches — Who’s ascending, who’s stagnating

Conference previews/predictions

• Big East predictions/roundtable: UConn’s back as Villanova chases another national title

• Big 12 predictions/roundtable: Is the Big 12 college basketball’s best conference?

• The American predictions/roundtable: Memphis, Wichita State under different kinds of scrutiny

• Big Ten predictions/roundtable: B1G is stacked, but is there a national title contender?

• Pac-12 predictions/roundtable: Oregon the team to beat, UCLA on the rise

• SEC predictions/roundtable: Kentucky’s a national contender, Tennessee might be, too

• Mid-Majors predictions/roundtable: Gonzaga transcends labels and can win first national title

New faces in new places

• Borzello: Newcomer impact rankings — College basketball’s top new faces

• 2020-21 college basketball coaching changes

• Borzello: Rick Pitino and college basketball’s second-chance coaches discuss new challenges

• Borzello: Winners and losers of college basketball’s transfer season

• Transfer rankings for 2020-21 and 2021-22

• Borzello: How good does transfer Olivier Sarr make Kentucky?

• Gasaway: Why Rick Pitino wins, and how he’ll do it at Iona

• Gasaway: Does Steve Forbes have the formula to win at Wake Forest?

• Gasaway: Billy Donovan and seven other guys who should be coaching college basketball today

Coronavirus pandemic-related features

• What the Ivy League’s cancellations mean for college basketball in 2020-21

• Medcalf: Will any fans be allowed in the stands in 2020-21?

• Borzello: Bubbles, buy games and bid worries: Inside the frenzy to save college basketball’s nonconference season

• Bracketology: What NCAA tournament forecasters expect from odd 2020-21 basketball season

• Medcalf: Why mid- and low-major college basketball programs are in big trouble without buy games

• Gasaway: Smaller NCAA tournament field, shorter schedule would not be new phenomena

• Medcalf: UC Riverside among programs with uncertain athletics future due to pandemic

• Medcalf: How is Hawai’i going to play basketball in 2020-21?