Ridiculously Early Top 25 by Gary Parrish

Normally we here at the Final Four Blog think that Gary Parrish is a bit too corny for our blood. He’s dramatic, uses those annoying one sentence, sometimes one word or one-syllable lines like sports writers do to all the time… but anyways. We have to give credit where credit is due. Garry Parrish did something really cool the other day. He came out with a top 25 list, titled Ridiculously Early Top 25 (and one) for 2008-09. You know what? This is a good list. Very cocky, and very self-aware. Nicely done, Gary. You came through.

So what does his list look like? Well, you’ll see some of the usual suspects up at the top, but there are a few surprises. For example, UCLA is supposed to lose Kevin Love and Darren Collison to the NBA draft. Heck, most people (including Parrish) think that Russell and Westbrook are gone before the next season as well. However, Parrish ranks UCLA at No. 5. No matter how many Final Fours they’ve been to in the past century, if your team gets gutted like that, it will be tough to recover. This isn’t like simply losing Jordan Farmar or something.

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