right now, it's far too early to actually make an educated guess on who will be challenging for the title. for the most part, everyone only knows about their team, and most of the time, they all think they are very good. there are a lot of teams that have proven talent providing a stable system on which to build around, while there are other teams that may have better talent, but are less experienced. the only way to actually know is to wait and watch for the preseason tournaments to really show ability level, then the regular season to see who's most consistent. there really isn't any other way to look at it, you can't look at a town's club team to figure out if they're gonna do well come school season, because there are a lot of bad club teams that do very well come spring.