This is the 96 th consecutive week the Zags have been in the AP poll, the longest streak in the nation. While falling short on that stage should never be considered a defect - there are 350-odd teams every spring who would love the chance to lose the title game - it can gnaw at a program.
That makes two championship game defeats in five years for Gonzaga, coming in different flavors - trailing the Bears for a good 33 seconds into last year's game, leading North Carolina with 110 seconds left in 2017. When last seen, the Zags’ unbeaten season was crashing to Earth against Baylor in Indianapolis. Funny thing about this year’s 11 is how many of them have recent scores to settle with March and early April. Title-bound Connecticut was 38 th in the voting in the 2010-11 season, the same neighborhood as Richmond and Murray State). The eventual winner appeared on that list in 12 of the past 14 seasons, so it’s been a most reliable omen. Here are the top 11 teams in the Associated Press preseason poll. Needing a prediction for the college basketball national champion, five months before they cut down the nets in New Orleans? This might help:
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