Is college basketball better or worse without a superteam?

This college basketball season has been wild, with seven different teams rising to the top spot of the AP Poll, and that is a wonderful thing for the sport.

Most of the time in college basketball, there is one dominant team that defines a season. Duke was that squad a year ago, with the Zion Williamson-led Blue Devils capturing the imagination of the country on a nightly basis, while Kentucky’s pursuit of perfection was all the rage for the 2014-2015 campaign.

That will not be the case this season, which has yet to see any team step up and assert themselves as the best in the country.

Michigan State began the year as the top team in the AP Poll and promptly lost its opener to Kentucky, setting the stage for a revolving door atop the polls.

Since the Spartans fell out of the top spot, six different teams have claimed it, with few holding onto that perch for more than a couple of weeks at a time. There have been upsets galore, with blue blood programs losing at home to mid-major schools (Kentucky fell to Evansville while Duke dropped one to Stephen F. Austin) and top five schools dropping like flies, including six losses from teams in the AP top five last week.

This absolute madness is fantastic for college basketball, which has definitely become a bit too predictable in recent years. The season has usually followed a pattern where the top one-and-done players lead their teams to the top of the heap, like Williamson did for Duke a year ago, only to fall short in March as a more veteran-laden team cuts down the nets at the Final Four.

That player is not present this year, which has helped balance the playing field significantly. There have been some tremendous freshmen performances from players such as Duke’s Vernon Carey Jr. and Georgia’s Anthony Edwards, but no one is capable of elevating entire teams as Williamson did.

The power conferences themselves are all having vastly different years as well. The ACC, which is usually a lock to send eight or nine teams to the NCAA Tournament, could wind up with just three if Virginia can’t get on track, while the Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, SEC and Pac-12 are very competitive from top-to-bottom.

There is also only one undefeated team left in the country, San Diego State in the Mountain West, but they don’t really have the resume of a team that could be a favorite come March. Almost every top contender has some good wins and really bizarre losses on their ledger, making it virtually impossible to distinguish them from one another.

This kind of setup may not be great to attract the attention of the casual hoops fan, but it is great for the purists since they get a chance to watch a regular season where every game truly matters. While the regular season is important, in most seasons it is a formality for the top programs, who simply fatten up on the dregs of their league to get ready for a run at March glory.

There are a solid 15-20 teams this year that feel like legitimate threats to win it all, so every single matchup is of vital importance to see which teams start rising towards the top of the brackets. Seeding should be very important in this edition of the NCAA Tournament, and the four teams that could hold No. 1 seeds today may well change to four different ones by the time we hit Selection Sunday.

The best part of all this is filling out your bracket in March will be madness. In a year where Kentucky lost on its home floor to Evansville and Duke dropped a home contest to Stephen F. Austin, no one can be considered a safe pick to advance even out of the first round.

We are just two years removed from seeing Virginia fall as the tournament’s top overall seed to 16-seed UMBC, and it wouldn’t shock anyone to see a 16 top a one this year. There are also plenty of dangerous mid-major schools, like San Diego State, Liberty, Bradley, and Dayton, so the chances of a small school making a run to the Final Four are also much better than usual.

March Madness tends to be a cliché, with a few shocking upsets at the beginning of the tournament before order tends to be restored by the second weekend, but this is the kind of year where all bets are off. Without a truly dominant team around, anyone can beat anyone on a given night regardless of where the game is set to take place.

This kind of season may not be as sexy as one where Zion is making SportsCenter every night with highlight-reel dunks, but it is also a much more enjoyable one seeing the traditional blue bloods struggle while non-traditional basketball programs like Penn State, Rutgers and DePaul make legitimate pushes for tournament bids.

The one rule that has been established this season is there are no rules.

Our best advice is to buckle up and enjoy what should be a delightfully bumpy ride for the next 2.5 months.

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