Bellweather programs

Except to the fans of those programs, it gets a little boring to see the same names in the Top 25 of college basketball year after year. Kentucky, Duke, Kansas and North Carolina may be very good teams, but it does get a tiresome seeing them atop the polls year after year. A little variety is supposed to be the spice of life. So, it is nice, over the last few years, to see a few new names invading the elite programs. For example, here lately we have seen Wichita State and Iowa State in the headlines a lot, and that was not the case five years ago.