mannie@msdc.UUCP (Mannie Lowe) (11/22/85)
As promised here is the latest top twenty list from all the publications.
UPI's poll was released last night and USA Today's this morning.
What follows is the compilation of all of the major pre-season college
basketball rankings. The following polls are included:
(1) SpNw = The Sporting News
(1) S&Sm = Street & Smith's
(1) DVit = Dick Vitale's Basketball yearbook (not really major)
(1) GmPl = Game Plan Basketball
(2) InSp = Inside Sports
(2) Sprt = Sport Magazine
(3) SpIl = Sports Illustrated
(4) AP = Associated Press pre-season poll
(4) USA = USA Today/CNN poll
(4) UPI = United Press International poll
Points are calculated in the usual way. 20 points for first place, 19 for
second, 18 for third, and so on. Some magazines included more than
twenty teams in their rankings. Only the top twenty of those magazines
are included here.
A note: Some of the early magazines ranked some teams based on the fact
that certain players were going to play for them (Cedric Henderson at
Georgia and Tito Horford at LSU to name a couple). Those rankings should
be taken with that in mind.
The numbers to the left of the abbreviations above represent the scaling
factors I put on the various polls. The early magazines were scaled less
than the wire service's polls (as it should be). The list is sorted by
total points NOT scaled. The scaling total and ranking is there just for your
amusement and perusal right after the total in parenthesis.
Enjoy,
Mannie Lowe
Medical Systems Development Corp
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Team SpNw S&Sm DVit GmPl InSp Sprt SpIl AP UPI USA Total
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1 Georgia Tech 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 195 (536 1)
2 Michigan 2 2 1 4 3 5 2 3 1 2 185 (512 2)
3 N. Carolina 3 3 2 1 2 4 3 2 3 3 184 (505 3)
4 Duke 5 6 5 7 4 10 5 6 5 4 153 (441 4)
4 Illinois 6 5 4 2 10 3 6 7 7 7 153 (422 6)
6 Syracuse 11 4 6 5 5 6 10 4 6 6 147 (425 5)
7 Georgetown 4 9 9 8 9 2 4 8 8 9 140 (403 8)
8 Kansas 10 7 8 6 8 11 7 5 4 5 139 (421 7)
9 Louisville 9 8 7 12 6 9 9 9 10 8 123 (366 9)
10 Auburn 8 10 15 10 7 7 11 10 11 10 111 (339 10)
11 Kentucky 19 12 9 11 19 13 11 12 14 69 (259 12)
12 Notre Dame 7 13 16 17 18 20 12 13 11 62 (231 13)
12 LSU 16 19 19 19 16 15 8 14 9 13 62 (264 11)
14 Oklahoma 14 18 14 11 17 12 17 13 17 56 (197 16)
15 Memphis St. 20 11 14 20 8 12 15 16 52 (201 14)
16 N.C. State 11 13 12 18 17 14 15 47 (197 16)
17 U.A.B. 17 20 17 15 17 15 16 16 12 44 (201 14)
18 UNLV 10 13 14 18 18 32 (141 18)
19 Navy 13 18 15 13 19 18 30 (56 19)
20 Maryland 18 14 14 19 19 21 (54 20)
Iowa 15 15 20 14 20 (43)
Georgia 12 16 14 (14)
Washington 12 17 13 (25)
DePaul 17 19 19 19 20 11 (26)
Virginia Tech 13 8 (16)
St. John's 14 7 (14)
Auburn 16 5 (15)
Tennessee 16 5 (10)
Houston 16 5 (5)
Indiana 20 18 4 (4)
Virginia 18 3 (6)
UCLA 20 1 (4)
Pittsburgh 20 1 (1)