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The confetti hasn't even been swept from the floor in Phoenix, but it's already time to start thinking about who will vie for the 2018 men's basketball national championship in San Antonio.

The only prediction guaranteed to come true in this super-early look at next year's Top 25 is that in two months' time, we'll look back on this and have a good, hearty laugh.

That's because in addition to the annual "will he or won't he?" guessing game involving dozens of NBA draft decisions and the ceaseless supply of transfer news, there are also six 5-star recruits who have not yet chosen a school: Mohamed Bamba (No. 2 on Scout), Trevon Duval (No. 3), Kevin Knox (No. 7), Brandon McCoy (No. 8), Brian Bowen (No. 19) and M.J. Walker (No. 23).

Last year, the late-signing 5-star guys made Kansas a title contender (Josh Jackson), made Texas a team that should've been better than it was (Jarrett Allen) and gave Duke another stud to put on its bench (Marques Bolden). With twice as many potential one-and-done stars still available this spring, expect a lot of national-hierarchy-altering news to drop over the course of the next six weeks.

In this Top 25, we make no assumptions about where those six players will sign, but we do offer our best guess at which players will jump to the NBA. Those potential first-round picks are listed under "noteworthy departures" with an asterisk. Needless to say, if and when we're wrong and a guy returns for another year, expectations for his team will increase.

Here is what Kerry Miller, C.J. Moore and Brian Pedersen think the Top 25 should look like when college basketball resumes in November.