Hey there. I'm Gary Parrish. Welcome to the I-On College Basketball podcast,

where we sometimes discuss camel-fightodo Birds and Leaky Black.

Matt Norlander is here with me and we're both going to be here with you for the next hour,

getting you ready for a college basketball season that gets underway on Monday.

Norlander, we're just four days away.

So let's start by focusing on some of the true national title contenders.

Let me run you through a few facts, and then we'll talk through.

Cool.

It's number one in the AP poll, but I personally have St. John's number one in my top 25 and one.

Meantime, Norlander, you've got Houston number one in your top 101 teams in the sport.

And Florida and Yukon, for what it's worth, they both also received first place votes

in the preseason AP polls.

So my first question for you, do we really have an unusual number of legitimate title contenders

heading into this season?

And tell me why you think it's Houston's year to actually get it done.

I got plenty on Houston. What would you say

is a usual number of title contenders entering into a season out of curiosity? What's the number

that you'd place that at going in? I think typically you can look at, say, the preseason AP poll and how

many different teams got first place votes in this year that's four and sometimes it can be as small as two.

Yeah, I'd say a typical year for going in.

It does feel bigger to me personally.

It feels like a wider number.

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