We’re now deep enough into the 2016 men’s college season to start making some broad pronouncements. And pronounce we shall.

This week’s Five Things takes us across the broad, sweeping landscape of the men’s game to suss out some salient trends permeating the season to this point. There are a few teams emerging from the pack we didn’t expect, a few sinking back into the pack we didn’t expect and a whole lot of individual performances we certainly didn’t expect. So, more or less, our expectations were shattered by yet another topsy-turvy college season. So the world turns.

Let’s take a look at the big storylines of the 2016 season so far.