Below is the AP poll that was just released:

1. Kentucky (27) 21-12 1,546 _
2. Michigan St. (22) 27-9 1,543 9
3. Louisville (14) 35-5 1,501 2
4. Duke (2) 30-6 1,435 6
5. Kansas 31-6 1,357 3
6. Arizona 27-8 1,311 21
7. Michigan 31-8 1,120 11
8. Oklahoma St. 24-9 1,093 17
8. Syracuse 30-10 1,093 16
10. Florida 29-8 1,048 14
11. Ohio St. 29-8 1,036 7
12. North Carolina 25-11 954 _
13. Memphis 31-5 741 19
14. VCU 27-9 680 _
15. Gonzaga 32-3 538 1
16. Wichita St. 30-9 512 _
17. Marquette 26-9 510 15
18. UConn 20-10 448 _
19. Oregon 28-9 408 25
20. Wisconsin 23-12 338 18
21. Notre Dame 25-10 332 23
22. UCLA 25-10 244 24
23. New Mexico 29-6 213 10
24. Virginia 23-12 189 _
25. Baylor 23-14 180 _

Others receiving votes: Tennessee 176, Creighton 145, Indiana 111, Colorado 83, Iowa 83, Harvard 46, Boise St. 22, Villanova 14, Arizona St. 11, Georgetown 11, UNLV 8, Washington 8, LSU 6, Pittsburgh 6, Stanford 6, Boston College 5, La Salle 4, Missouri 3, Saint Louis 3, St. John's 3, Cincinnati 1.

VCU comes in at #14, Wichita State is #16 and Marquette is at #17.

Now let the season begin!!!

guess AP isn't respecting us either.

Don't worry about it... I never put any stock in pre-season... let the games and action on the court prove the rankings!

(10-31-2013 12:58 PM)stever20 Wrote:  guess AP isn't respecting us either.

Actually this poll would put 5 teams in the tournament.

But, yes, no respect for the top of the league. But that's understandable at this stage

I think if Creighton was one of the "returning" teams they would be rated a lot higher- might even be ranked ahead of Marquette quite frankly

Georgetown is the interesting one. probably for some voters tough to get the last image of the FGCU game out of their mind- then adding to that losing best player.

(11-01-2013 12:11 AM)stever20 Wrote:  I think if Creighton was one of the "returning" teams they would be rated a lot higher- might even be ranked ahead of Marquette quite frankly

Georgetown is the interesting one. probably for some voters tough to get the last image of the FGCU game out of their mind- then adding to that losing best player.

Creighton should be ranked ahead of Marquette and Georgetown should be ranked higher. Even without last year's best player, they still have a ton of talent.

like I said with Creighton- if they weren't entering a percieved tougher conference- I think they would be ranked(and quite possibly higher than Marquette).

Georgetown like I said- it's a combo of losing Porter and a statement on the NCAA failures the last few years.