Tracy Abrams has missed the last two seasons due to injury, but if he's finally healthy enough to play his senior year, Illinois could be one of the biggest surprises of the 2016-17 college basketball season.

Every year there are multiple major-conference teams who either come out of nowhere to make the NCAA tournament or make an unexpected leap from preseason bubble to Final Four candidate. We had USC and Texas Tech for the former, as well as Oregon and Xavier for the latter last year.

For each major conference (and the three mid-majors almost certain to produce multiple bids), we've pinpointed the one team most likely to join that club this season. They are the teams in the various preseason conference projections that co...

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