Duke and Kansas might be the two best men's college basketball teams in the country this year, but one of those two title contenders is guaranteed to lose a game barely 100 hours into the 2016-17 season.

The following 20 teams are the ones we're projecting to open the year ranked in the Top 20, but their rankings in this slideshow have nothing to do with where they stand in the national hierarchy. Rather, they have been listed in chronological order of projected first loss, beginning with a pair of great games in the Armed Forces Classic and concluding with a pair of West Coast teams that shouldn't lose a game until mid-January.

Between events like the Champions Classic, the ACC/Big Ten Chall...

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