#8 Michigan State
#10 Indiana
#12 Wisconsin
#20 Purdue
#39 Ohio State
#42 Maryland
#43 Michigan
#64 Penn State
#65 Illinois
#85 Iowa
#86 Northwestern
#107 Nebraska
#118 Minnesota
#253 Rutgers
Non-conference opponents
#31 Florida State
#61 Vanderbilt
#74 Arkansas
#94 UT-Arlington
#122 St. John's
#146 Northern Illinois
#169 Southern Illinois
#173 Georgia Southern
#222 Louisiana Lafayette
#224 NJIT
#229 Mount St. Mary's
#259 Arkansas State
#276 LIU-Brooklyn
"I'll go aggressive on Minnesota here. This was an 8-23 team last season, but Amir Coffey will have pop right away and the team is not going to have the same offensive issues from last year. It's not an NIT team still, but it's going to be markedly better. Nate Mason, junior guard, is going to have a breakout year."
http://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...cbs-sports-1-351-college-basketball-rankings/
Sounds like they consider this an optimistic prediction, which is disappointing. That said, it's a ranking of all 351 teams, and there's no mention of our incoming transfers, so it may just be a very surface-level analysis based on being awful last season and having one stud recruit coming in. Also kind of funny, the team Steve Pikiell left, Stony Brook, to take the Rutgers job, is ranked higher than Rutgers here.