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College basketball rankings: Houston jumps to No. 1 after landing Oklahoma transfer Milos Uzan – CBS Sports
Milos Uzan is not Jamal Shead.
That goes without saying.
But the 6-foot-4 guard is somebody who started 56 games at Oklahoma over the past two seasons while helping the Sooners finish in the top 55 at BartTorvik.com both years — point being that Uzan’s commitment to Houston this weekend suggests Kelvin Sampson has found a player who should be capable of eating a lot of the minutes Shead’s departure from the program will open up next season.
It’s a nice addition.
Houston now has a possible starting lineup that looks like this:
That lineup features four returning starters (Cryer, Sharp, Francis, Roberts) from a Houston team that won the Big 12 by multiple games and secured a No. 1 seed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament — plus a fifth player (Uzan) who’s already been starting in the Big 12 for two years. In total, the Cougars are now expected to bring back eight of their top 10 scorers to pair with an interesting group of newcomers featuring Uzan and two top-85 prospects from the Class of 2024, and that’s why Houston is No. 1 in Version 4.0 of the 2024-25 CBS Sports Preseason Top 25 And 1 college basketball rankings.
North Carolina is No. 2.
Duke is No. 3.
The fact that there have already been four versions of the Top 25 And 1 since UConn won the 2024 NCAA Tournament last Monday night indicates how busy the first days of this offseason have been. There’s no reason to think things will slow down any time soon with the transfer portal still full of impactful players. So, Version 5.0 of the Top 25 And 1 is likely just around the corner.
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