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College basketball’s offseason is exploding as a landmark court ruling lets all fifth-year players enter the transfer portal, flooding teams with talent and shaking up preseason rankings. Kentucky, now ranked 19th after slipping two spots, faces a brutal early test against top-15 Virginia in Charlottesville — a road game against a team hungry to rebound from last year’s NCAA exit. With new coach Mark Pope still hunting his final roster spot, the Wildcats’ hopes hinge on whether Iowa State transfer Milan Momcilovic — widely hailed as the best player in the portal — can deliver. The addition of Momcilovic has already vaulted Kentucky back into the top 20, but can Pope use that last spot to push them into the top 15 before tip-off? Meanwhile, UCLA, Miami, and Missouri are surging up the rankings, while Kentucky’s dual-point guard experiment with Zoom Diallo and Alex Wilkins will be closely watched.

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