Debate Prep: Top 25 Questions Needing Answers as Regular Season Starts

The start of the regular season will begin to start providing answers to the most vital questions heading into the 2012-13 campaign. Following are the Top 25 inquiries triggered by season openers:

• Is defending champion Kentucky capable of reaching the Final Four after losing five underclassmen early in the NBA draft?

• Will a high school reunion be the main reason Louisville lives up to billing?

• Will any Big 12 Conference opponent keep Kansas from becoming the fourth DI school in NCAA history to capture nine consecutive regular-season league titles?

• Will McDermott duo continue its ascension among the premier father-son, coach-player combinations in NCAA history as flashy forward Doug emerges as latest Great White Hope?

• Will Zellers become the 10th brother tandem in NCAA history to earn All-American status?

• Will Flip Pressey join his father Paul as the ninth set of father/son All-Americans and show how much of a miscue it was for him to be consigned to third-team all-league status in the Big 12 last season?

• Is UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad the next Bernard King or Harrison Barnes and don't you wish the overvalued recruiting services were more accurate in their high school player ratings?

• Which preseason Top 5 team in AP poll will most likely flop?

• Which mid-major player will lead the nation in scoring and possibly warrant All-American consideration?

• Is inexperienced Kevin Ollie in over his head at UConn succeeding retired coaching legend Jim Calhoun?

• Will Gonzaga return to the top of the WCC standings under coach Mark Few?

• Will gifted guards Rotnei Clarke (Butler) and JJ McCollum (Lehigh) become the first All-Americans for their respective schools and what other mid-major players probably will prosper?

• Will Larry Eustachy become the first coach to register at least 24 victories in a single season with five different DI schools?

• Will Rick Majerus' leave of absence at Saint Louis enable Jim Crews to end a personal nine-year streak of losing records with Evansville and Army?

• Will hiring of Larry Brown help SMU party like its 1988, the last time the Mustangs won an NCAA playoff game and his last season in college coaching?

• How will Missouri, Texas A&M, Texas Christian and West Virginia fare in their new power conference digs?

• Which prominent schools likely will continue to fail to make an impact on the NCAA playoffs?

• Which schools are overdue to end a drought by supplying an all-conference selection?

• Could the dismissal of their coach/fathers be the best thing to happen to Billy Baron (Canisius) and Trey Zeigler (Pittsburgh) plus their new schools?

• How many players other than Arizona's Mark Lyons have been reunited with coaches who originally recruited them?

• How many coaches returned to their old stomping grounds like Virginia Tech newcomer James Johnson?

• Which members of power conferences should be ashamed of themselves because of their weak non-league schedules?

• Will Donnie Tyndall eventually regret leaving his alma mater (Morehead State) to coach Southern Mississippi?

• Will Brad Greenberg, Bruce Pearl and Jalen Rose be positive additions to ESPN's college basketball coverage?

• Will POTUS secure a "contract extension" on November 6 following four similar suspect years like his brother-in-law (Craig Robinson) was able to secure as Oregon State's coach?