2023-24 men's college basketball preview, picks, rankings (2024)

The 2023-24 men's college basketball season begins Nov. 6 with a full day's slate of games.

As practices ramp up, media days take place and rosters are set, ESPN will make sure you are prepared with everything you need to know.

The new season will culminate with the national championship taking place at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on April 8.

Can reigning champion UConn orchestrate a repeat -- something that has yet to be done since Florida in 2006 and 2007 -- with a different looking squad? Or will we see a battle between the Way-Too-Early top two teams, Kansas and Duke? Will reigning Wooden Award winner Zach Edey take the trophy home again? What will the sport look like without Jim Boeheim, Mike Brey and Bob Huggins? Will we see Bronny James suit up for USC this season?

These and more are among the pressing questions ESPN's team of experts will be attempting to answer in the buildup to tipoff -- and until the national championship game.

Last updated: November 6, 2023

National coverage

• The five-minute 2023-24 offseason recap

• Borzello: Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2023-24

• Lunardi: Updated Bracketology for 2023-24

• Underrated, overrated and Final Four men's teams for 2023-24

• The College Basketball Fantasy Draft

• 16 nonconference games to watch

• Medcalf: FAU, a magical Final Four run and what comes next

• Medcalf: Division I coaches recall their worst tournament losses

• Borzello: Your guide to six early-season college basketball tournaments

• Vitale: Dickie V's 2023-24 preseason All-Americans

• Vitale: Dickie V's 2023-24 preseason "Diaper Dandies"

• Vitale: Dickie V's preseason Top 25 teams

• Vitale: Dickie V has questions about the 2023-24 season

• 2024 NCAA tournament dates, sites, more

• The definitive Jay Bilas 1-68 rankings

• Borzello: Key storylines that will shape the 2024 national champion

• Gasaway: Best-, worst-case scenarios for every AP preseason top 25 team

• Borzello: The 2024 coaching hot seat

• Borzello: 12 players with breakout potential

Conference coverage

• Roundtable: Power 5 conference questions and all 32 league winner predictions

• Medcalf: Key storylines for each Division I conference

• Medcalf: Player of the year predictions for all 32 conferences

• Gasaway: The ACC's expansion into (hoops) uncertainty

• Vitale: Dickie V: Top to bottom, which conference is the strongest?

• The mid-majors to watch this season

New faces in new places

Keeping track of all the player departures, transfers and additions, as well as coaching changes ahead of the new season.

• Coaching changes for 2023-24

• Roster comings and goings for 2023-24

• The top 100 transfers and where they're going in 2023-24

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• Borzello: Impact Newcomer Rankings

• Biancardi: Freshmen superlatives

By the numbers

Stats-based theories about the new season.

• Gasaway: What 3-point shooting might look like in 2023-24

• Gasaway: Age in college hoops in 2023-24

Throwbacks

Remembering the best of men's college basketball history.

• Medcalf: The 25 best teams of the past 25 seasons

• Medcalf: The 25 biggest duds of the past 25 seasons

• Medcalf: The 25 best individual performances of the past 25 seasons

• Medcalf: The 25 biggest "What if?" moments of the past 25 seasons

• Medcalf: The top 25 players of the past 25 seasons

• Gasaway: Who had the most dominant NCAA tournament runs?

The 2024 NBA draft

The storylines that will affect who we see in an NBA jersey -- whether in one year or two.

• Givony: How Cooper Flagg reclassifying affects the 2025 NBA draft

• Givony: 2024 NBA mock draft: The newest French big who could go No. 1

Recruiting buzz

As the early signing period approaches, get to know the future college stars and how they've done after a busy summer.

• ESPN 100 college basketball prospect rankings for 2024

• Roundtable: Breaking down the impact of Cooper Flagg's commitment to Duke

• Biancardi: The Cooper Flagg game breakdown

• Biancardi: The top recruiting playmakers over the next three classes

• Biancardi: Top 25 players regardless of class

• Borzello: The importance of July and other summer recruiting storylines