Is one week too early to make bold predictions about a sports season? For college basketball, maybe not.

As Ken Pomeroy pointed out in his newsletter this week, what’s cool about this sport is that there are so many games in the first week that you actually have enough data to see where the season might be headed. For instance, KenPom data shows we’re currently on pace for the highest-scoring season in at least 30 years.

This works anecdotally, too. Most teams have played two games by now, some even three. We’re not doing “NFL Week 1 overreactions” here.

So let’s run through some of the most interesting and apparent takeaways after a little more than one week of college hoops action.

Fab freshmen are everywhere.

The lotteries of the past few NBA drafts have featured a number of intern

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