Let’s Overreact To The 2026-27 Torvik Preseason Rankings

I don’t know when precisely that Bart Torvik hit the publish button on the preseason rankings for men’s college basketball in the 2026-27 season, but I do know that Andrei from Paint Touches tipped me off to it late on May 1st. Pretty reasonable day to do it, honestly. About a month after the portal opened up or so is a pretty solid timeframe for a lot of transfers to fall into place and give us a solid idea of what everyone is going to look like next season, right? It’s still a Way Too Early Top 365, but it at least starts to give us a picture of what to think about YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles going into Shaka Smart’s show-me season in Milwaukee.

Let’s drop in a screengrab of the entire Big East juuuuust in case things drift and shift over the next few months. After all, there’s guys who are in the NBA Draft process AND the portal, and if they stay in school, that’s going to shake all of these numbers up.

Yep. Torvik’s preseason rankings have Marquette at #27 in the country. That’s with projections of #33 in offensive efficiency and #22 in defensive efficiency. Just so we are on the same page here: The Torvik computers had the Golden Eagles at #120 in the country in offensive efficiency at the end of the 2025-26 season, and #39 on defense. Overall, MU finished at #75.

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So, yeah, #27 with a top 35 offense and defense would be an improvement on the 12-20 mess that we just watched. I don’t know about you, but I would sign a contract right now guaranteeing that Marquette is the #27 team in the country on Selection Sunday in March 2027. A man with a really nice computer wants to put our basketball team in the NCAA tournament! Gimme a pen, I’m signing, you’re signing, we’re all signing up for that.

Now, with that said, there are parts of the calculation here that I don’t particularly care for. For example: This is with Caedin Hamilton playing 29% of the time. I don’t know if anyone reading this really wants to see him playing 11.6 minutes…

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Publish date : 2026-05-02 16:07:00

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