Opening day for college basketball is finally here and it feels like Christmas. A full slate of hoops is underway on your televisions and streaming devices, but if you’d rather spend your time before tipoff reading, I’ve got just the thing. As is tradition, college basketball writers dropped their predictions for the 2024-25 season this morning. None that I can find were brave enough to pick Kentucky to make the Final Four or win the title in Mark Pope’s first season, but the Cats were a popular talking point. Here’s a roundup of what the national media is saying about Kentucky at the start of…