Hey there, it's Gary Parrish.

Welcome back, CBS Sports.

I own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting.

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Birds and Leaky Black Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube,

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while you're here, let's get into it. As I hope you know, we have launched our annual candid coaches series over at cbsports.com. If you're unfamiliar, here's the deal. Each year, what we do is we ask roughly 100 college basketball coaches, a series of questions. We grant anonymity in exchange for honesty, and then we collect the answers. We publish them.

And we've had three questions so far this week.

Let's take them in the order that they were published.

Norlander, you handled question number one.

Which team will be the best in college basketball this season?

Tell the folks what the coaches told us.

Well, the coaches came down to two above all others,

which is not terribly surprising,

but the exact breakdown was this.

The Purdue Boilermakers won by four percentage points.

Purdue got 32% of the vote.

Then Houston got 28% of the vote. Then Houston got 28% of the vote.

Then there's a drop, a relatively big drop.

Then Duke and St. John's each received 8% of the vote.

And then Yukon and Florida, Florida coming off a national championship.

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