The home stretch of college basketball's more than seven-month-long offseason is finally here, and we're ringing in the final few weeks of the break with 15 bold predictions for the first month of the 2016-17 season.

It may seem like we're just throwing crazy garbage on a bunch of slides, but there's a fine line to balance when making bold predictions. The outcome that we forecast has to be feasible, but it can't be the obvious choice.

Let's use the Maui Invitational as an example. Picking North Carolina to win wouldn't exactly be going out on a limb, while picking Chaminade to beat three consecutive major-conference opponents would be downright foolish. Neither one is a bold prediction.

However, forecasting Connecti...

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