Lindy's and Athlon's 2019 College Basketball Previews

[NYCRedmen]

Just picked up my copies so I figured I'd save some folks $9 bucks they cost LOL.

Lindys:
- Only 1 Big East Team in the Top 25 (Villanova at 15)
- Kansas as the overall #1 team in country
- Predicts only 3 Big East teams to make the NCAA (Villanova, Butler & Xavier)
- Rates the Big East as the #6 conference overall
- Nice article on Shamorie Ponds
- Big East Player of the Year - Ponds
- Big East predictions - 1 Villanova, 2 Xavier, 3 Butler, 4 Providence, 5 Marquette, 6 St. John's, 7 Creighton, 8 Seton Hall, 9 Georgetown, 10 DePaul

Athlon:
- Only 1 Big East team in the Top 25 (Villanova at 13)
- Kansas as the overall #1 team in the country
- Predicts 5 Big East teams in the NCAA (Villanova, Marquette, Xavier, Providence and St. John's)
- Shamorie Ponds listed as #5 in the Top 100 Players section
- Dave Leiato and Chris Mullin in the "Coaches on the Hot Seat" section
- Mikey Dixon listed in the "Transfer to Watch" section
- Big East Player of the Year - Ponds
- Big East predictions - 1 Villanova, 2 Marquette, 3 Xavier, 4 St. John's, 5 Providence, 6 Butler, 7 Seton Hall, 8 Georgetown, 9 Creighton, 10 DePaul

PDFs attached

 

[JohnnyFever]

Thanks for doing this I know it takes some effort! Thought Lindy's was a bit silly acting like we don't have enough talent to compete. Barring terrible luck with injuries to key players, we have the horses and it's all on the staff to come through. Heron or not we should at least be heavily in the conversation for the NCAA's i.e. last team out or so. With Heron not making the tourney would be grounds for firing.

 

[MarkRedman]

[quote="NYCRedmen" post=294634]Just picked up my copies so I figured I'd save some folks $9 bucks they cost LOL.

Lindys:
- Only 1 Big East Team in the Top 25 (Villanova at 15)
- Kansas as the overall #1 team in country
- Predicts only 3 Big East teams to make the NCAA (Villanova, Butler & Xavier)
- Rates the Big East as the #6 conference overall
- Nice article on Shamorie Ponds
- Big East Player of the Year - Ponds
- Big East predictions - 1 Villanova, 2 Xavier, 3 Butler, 4 Providence, 5 Marquette, 6 St. John's, 7 Creighton, 8 Seton Hall, 9 Georgetown, 10 DePaul

Athlon:
- Only 1 Big East team in the Top 25 (Villanova at 13)
- Kansas as the overall #1 team in the country
- Predicts 5 Big East teams in the NCAA (Villanova, Marquette, Xavier, Providence and St. John's)
- Shamorie Ponds listed as #5 in the Top 100 Players section
- Dave Leiato and Chris Mullin in the "Coaches on the Hot Seat" section
- Mikey Dixon listed in the "Transfer to Watch" section
- Big East Player of the Year - Ponds
- Big East predictions - 1 Villanova, 2 Marquette, 3 Xavier, 4 St. John's, 5 Providence, 6 Butler, 7 Seton Hall, 8 Georgetown, 9 Creighton, 10 DePaul

PDFs attached[/quote]


I think Athlon's picks are much better