2015-16 College Basketball Predictions

Here are my predictions for the 2015-16 College Basketball season.

AEC
1. Albany
2. Stony Brook
3. Vermont
4. New Hampshire
5. Hartford
6. Binghamton
7. Maine
8. UMBC
9. UMass Lowell

AAC
1. Cincinnati
2. Connecticut
3. SMU
4. Tulsa
5. Memphis
6. Temple
7. Houston
8. East Carolina
9. UCF
10. Tulane
11. USF

ACC
1. Duke
2. North Carolina
3. Notre Dame
4. Virginia
5. Miami
6. NC State
7. Louisville
8. Florida State
9. Syracuse
10. Pittsburgh
11. Virginia Tech
12. Clemson
13. Wake Forest
14. Georgia Tech
15. Boston College

Atlantic-10
1. Rhode Island
2. Dayton
3. Davidson
4. VMI
5. George Washington
6. Richmond
7. La Salle
8. St. Joseph
9. St. Bonaventure
10. Massachusetts
11. St. Louis
12. Duquesne
13. George Mason
14. Fordham

Atlantic Sun
1. North Florida
2. NJIT
3. Florida Gulf Coast
4. Lipscomb
5. USC Upstate
6. Kennesaw State
7. Jacksonville
8. Stetson

Big East
1. Villanova
2. Georgetown
3. Xavier
4. Butler
5. Providence
6. Marquette
7. Creighton
8. St. John's
9. Seton Hall
10. DePaul

Big Sky
1. Montana
2. Eastern Washington
3. Northern Arizona
4. Weber State
5. Sacramento State
6. Southern Utah
7. Northern Colorado
8. Idaho
9. Portland State
10. North Dakota
11. Montana State
12. Idaho State

Big South
1. Winthrop
2. Coastal Carolina
3. High Point
4. Radford
5. Longwood
6. UNC Asheville
7. Gardner-Webb
8. Charleston Southern
9. Campbell
10. Presbyterian
11. Liberty

Big-10
1. Maryland
2. Michigan State
3. Wisconsin
4. Indiana
5. Purdue
6. Michigan
7. Ohio State
8. Iowa
9. Illinois
10. Northwestern
11. Minnesota
12. Nebraska
13. Penn State
14. Rutgers

Big-12
1. Kansas
2. Oklahoma
3. Iowa State
4. Baylor
5. West Virginia
6. Texas
7. Oklahoma State
8. Kansas State
9. Texas Tech
10. TCU

Big West
1. UC Irvine
2. Hawaii
3. Long Beach State
4. UC Santa Barbara
5. Cal Poly
6. UC Riverside
7. UC Davis
8. Cal State Northridge
9. Cal State Fullerton

CAA
1. Hofstra
2. William & Mary
3. James Madison
4. Northeastern
5. Delaware
6. Towson
7. Drexel
8. UNC-Wilmington
9. Elon
10. Charleston

C-USA
1. Old Dominion
2. UAB
3. UTEP
4. Middle Tennessee
5. Louisiana Tech
6. Western Kentucky
7. Rice
8. FAU
9. Marshall
10. North Texas
11. FIU
12. Charlotte
13. Southern Miss
14. UTSA

Horizon
1. Valparaiso
2. Oakland
3. Wright State
4. Milwaukee
5. Detroit
6. Green Bay
7. Cleveland State
8. Northern Kentucky
9. Illinois-Chicago
10. Youngstown State

Ivy
1. Columbia
2. Yale
3. Princeton
4. Harvard
5. Pennsylvania
6. Brown
7. Dartmouth
8. Cornell

MAAC
1. Iona
2. Manhattan
3. Rider
4. Monmouth
5. Siena
6. Canisius
7. Quinnipiac
8. Fairfield
9. Saint Peters
10. Niagra
11. Marist

MAC
*= Conference Champion
- East
1. Akron
2. Buffalo
3. Kent State
4. Ohio
5. Miami (OH)
6. Bowling Green

- West
1. *Central Michigan
2. Western Michigan
3. Toledo
4. Northern Illinois
5. Eastern Michigan
6. Ball State

MEAC
1. NC Central
2. Hampton
3. Howard
4. Norfolk State
5. Maryland-Eastern Shore
6. Bethune-Cookman
7. North Carolina A&T
8. South Carolina State
9. Delaware State
10. Morgan State
11. Coppin State
12. Savannah State
13. Florida A&M

MVC
1. Wichita State
2. Northern Iowa
3. Illinois State
4. Evansville
5. Loyola (CHI)
6. Indiana State
7. Missouri State
8. Drake
9. Southern Illinois
10. Bradley

MWC
1. San Diego State
2. Boise State
3. Utah State
4. UNLV
5. New Mexico
6. Fresno State
7. Colorado State
8. Nevada
9. Wyoming
10. Air Force
11. San Jose

NEC
1. Robert Morris
2. Mount Saint Mary's
3. Bryant
4. St. Francis (BKN)
5. LIU Brooklyn
6. St. Francis
7. Wagner
8. Sacred Heart
9. Fairleigh Dickinson
10. Central Connecticut State

OVC
*= Conference Champion
- East
1. Belmont
2. Eastern Kentucky
3. Jacksonville State
4. Morehead State
5. Tennessee Tech
6. Tennessee State

- West
1. *Murray State
2. Tennessee-Martin
3. Eastern Illinois
4. Southeast Missouri State
5. Austin Peay
6. SIU Edwardsville

Pac-12
1. Arizona
2. California
3. Utah
4. Oregon
5. Oregon State
6. UCLA
7. Colorado
8. Stanford
9. USC
10. Arizona State
11. Washington
12. Washington State

Patriot
1. Lehigh
2. Bucknell
3. Boston University
4. Army
5. Holy Cross
6. American
7. Lafayette
8. Colgate
9. Loyola (MD)
10. Navy

SEC
1. Kentucky
2. LSU
3. Vanderbilt
4. Texas A&M
5. Georgia
6. Ole Miss
7. Florida
8. Mississippi State
9. Auburn
10. South Carolina
11. Tennessee
12. Alabama
13. Arkansas
14. Missouri

SWAC
1. Texas Southern
2. Southern
3. Alabama State
4. Jackson State
5. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
6. Alabama A&M
7. Prairie View A&M
8. Alcorn State
9. Mississippi Valley State
10. Grambling State

Southern
1. Chattanooga
2. Wofford
3. Furman
4. Mercer
5. UNCG
6. East Tennessee State
7. Western Carolina
8. Samford
9. VMI
10. The Citadel

Southland
1. Stephen F. Austin
2. Texas A&M-CC
3. Northwestern State
4. Sam Houston State
5. Incarnate Word
6. New Orleans
7. McNeese State
8. Lamar
9. Houston Baptist
10. Southeastern Louisiana
11. Nicholls State
12. Abilene Christian
13. Central Arkansas

The Summit
1. South Dakota State
2. North Dakota State
3. Denver
4. IPFW
5. South Dakota
6. Oral Roberts
7. IUPUI
8. Omaha
9. Western Illinois

Sun Belt
1. Louisiana-Lafayette
2. Georgia State
3. Louisiana-Monroe
4. Arkansas-Little Rock
5. Appalachian State
6. Georgia Southern
7. South Alabama
8. Texas State
9. Arkansas State
10. Texas-Arlington
11. Troy

WAC
1. New Mexico State
2. Cal State Bakersfield
3. UMKC
4. Seattle
5. Grand Canyon
6. Utah Valley
7. Chicago State
8. Texas Rio Grand Valley

WCC
1. Gonzaga
2. BYU
3. Pepperdine
4. Santa Clara
5. St. Mary's
6. Portland
7. Pacific
8. San Francisco
9. San Diego
10. Loyola Marymount

Final Four
(MW) Kentucky
(S) Maryland
(W) Duke
(E) Kansas

National Championship
(S) Maryland over (MW) Kentucky

Awards
Player of the Year: Ben Simmons, LSU
Coach of the Year: Mark Turgeon, Maryland