We’ve made it.

Yesterday Will Maupin wrote about Gonzaga, the number one team in our Other Top 25 preseason rankings, putting an end to our annual preseason countdown. Like every year — but especially this year — there are quite a few talented college basketball programs outside of the traditional seven conferences. Whittling down the list to just 25 teams was incredibly difficult.

By this time tomorrow, our Other Top 25 preseason poll might look silly. Some of these teams will win a couple games, pull an upset or two and make us look like geniuses. Some of these teams will start flat, get walloped by a Power-5 team they technically weren’t supposed to beat, or play non-D1s, for whatever reason. Next week’s Other Top 25 poll might look a lot different from this one, but that’s okay. It’s just how preseason rankings work.

Nevertheless, here is The Other Top 25 preseason poll in its entirety. Links to each of our articles are included, along with an elevator pitch for each team and a couple names to remember as the season progresses.