Sports Illustrated Top 20 Preseason College Basketball Poll

Posted Nov 2, 2016
No. 6 North Carolina: The 2015–16 Tar Heels ranked 268th nationally in three-point shooting (32.7%) and still won the ACC regular-season and tournament titles, then reached the NCAA final. No one in Chapel Hill thinks that formula will work again. “For us to make a run, we have to hit outside shots,” Justin Jackson says, so the search is on for deadeye marksmen. (Sports Illustrated)

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