Our non-conference SOS is looking weaker w/ early-season results.
Oregon probably looks a little better than expected, but it's tough to get a read on their first few games.
In Battle 4 Atlantis our 5 potential opponents of reasonable strength are Indiana, Columbia, Texas A&M, North Carolina, and Villanova. We will only play 2 of these teams.
Indiana just lost to Harvard at home. It's possible Harvard is a tournament-level team this year though. Indiana plays Stanford next week, so a win there will help us out.
Columbia lost their star from last year, Abbey Hsu, so not sure if they're good. They do have Duke on their schedule.
North Carolina has started this year w/ two 30-point wins over Massey 300+ teams. Not promising.
Texas A&M lost to A&M Corpus Christi, and barely won a dogfight with UTSA (both at home). It might get ugly for them.
No idea if Villanova is good. No games yet. They were a bubble team last year, and got portal-raided in offseason. Hard to be optimistic.
UNLV lost 3 of top 5 minutes-getters from last season, where they were good (beat Oklahoma, Arizona). We'll need them to be competitive vs Oklahoma this month.
UCLA is conservatively a top 10 team, likely top 5.
Our schedule looks a lot like last year's, where Utah was our only legit opponent. We'll need the rest of the B12 to do SOS heavy lifting.
And some in-conference foes are looking weaker than expected. Arizona/Colorado/Kansas all look down so far.