The 2016 men’s Division I season is motoring along into its next phase. Now that we’ve gotten the season-opening pleasantries out of the way, it’s down to brass tacks.

This week’s men’s Five Things takes stock of a handful of major talking points emerging from the wood grain early in the year. From UCLA’s nation-rattling win over Akron to a possible player of the year candidate emerging on the opposite coast, we’ve got a bit of everything to explore this week.