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Oct. 20, 2011 - Preseason Poll

Rank Team (first-place votes) 2010 Record Points 2010-11 Final Ranking
1. North Carolina (30) 29-8 774 8
2. Kentucky (1) 29-9 721 3
3. Ohio State 34-3 702 5
4. Connecticut 32-9 655 1
5. Syracuse 27-8 649 18
6. Duke 32-5 635 7
7. Vanderbilt 23-11 567 NR
8. Louisville 25-10 514 22
9. Memphis 25-10 482 NR
10. Florida 29-8 474 10
11. Pittsburgh 28-6 471 12
12. Baylor 18-13 358 NR
13. Kansas 35-3 331 4
14. Wisconsin 25-9 313 15
15. Xavier 24-8 277 NR
16. Arizona 30-8 269 9
17. Alabama 24-11 194 NR
18. Michigan 21-14 187 NR
19. Texas A&M 24-9 161 NR
20. UCLA 23-11 147 NR
21. Marquette 22-15 145 20
22. Cincinnati 26-9 141 NR
23. Gonzaga 25-10 125 NR
24. California 18-15 111 NR
25. Missouri 23-11 110 NR

I was expecting a top-20 ranking but I guess 22nd is pretty good!

Vandy, Louisville, Pitt, Xavier, Bama, are too high. UC is a little low but I wasn't expecting the Cats to start much higher.

With their returning players plus their incoming class with Behanan and Blackshear, I don't think Louisville is ranked too high at all.

Xavier at 15? Wow.

Seriously am I missing something regarding Xavier??

I hope they are top 10 when we pummel the crap out of them.

Damn I'm getting excited about basketball season. The one good thing about the dark years is that it made years like last year much more fulfilling.

22 looks good, nice to be ranked preseason.

Kansas and Wisconsin stand out to me. Villanova is being underestimated

(10-20-2011 02:18 PM)BeerCat Wrote:  Seriously am I missing something regarding Xavier??

I hope they are top 10 when we pummel the crap out of them.

Damn I'm getting excited about basketball season. The one good thing about the dark years is that it made years like last year much more fulfilling.

It's a team with a lot of experience that has been in or around the top 25 the last few years and has made a couple deep NCAA tournament runs. I have no problem with where XU ranks despite the fact that I do think they are a bit overrated (and were last year, but not in the couple years before that). They have earned it with their recent success.

That said UC is going to beat them bloody.

Of the 6 ranked Big East teams, 1 is bball only school, Marquette.

3 Ranked former CUSA teams, Marquette, UC, Ville

Another former CUSA team is up pretty high as well (Memphis). What a terrible conference that was

(10-20-2011 03:38 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Another former CUSA team is up pretty high as well (Memphis). What a terrible conference that was

Memphis should be invited to the Big East. They make up for the loss of Pitt/Syracuse to some extent and are a similar university as UL and UC.

(10-20-2011 04:19 PM)Bearcat_Bounce Wrote:  

(10-20-2011 03:38 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Another former CUSA team is up pretty high as well (Memphis). What a terrible conference that was

Memphis should be invited to the Big East. They make up for the loss of Pitt/Syracuse to some extent and are a similar university as UL and UC.

With all due respect, they are not as similar as Memphis fans would like to think.

UofL is ranked high every year and take a dive and are usually overrated...only to emerge in ncaa and make a run (except last year)...that's their M.O.

(10-21-2011 04:38 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  UofL is ranked high every year and take a dive and are usually overrated...only to emerge in ncaa and make a run (except last year)...that's their M.O.

This is why I love Rick Pitino teams. They are good when it counts.