[net.sport.hoops] Pre-season Rankings

mannie@msdc.UUCP (Mannie Lowe) (11/19/85)

Hello College Basketball Fans !!!

Well, here is the list you've all been waiting for.  What follows is a
compilation of all of the major pre-season college basketball rankings.
The following magazines are included:
    SpNw = The Sporting News
    S&Sm = Street & Smith's
    DVit = Dick Vitale's Basketball yearbook (not really major)
    GmPl = Game Plan Basketball
    InSp = Inside Sports
    Sprt = Sport Magazine
    SpIl = Sports Illustrated (hit the stands today)
    AP   = Associated Press pre-season 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.

Two publications are missing from this list and will be included in a 
followup posting when available.  Those are the UPI and USA Today rankings.
In that posting, I will also put in a scaling factor to the different
rankings based on the date published and information contained therein.

Enjoy,
Mannie Lowe
Medical Systems Development Corp
{gatech,ihnp4,mcnc,akgua}!msdc!mannie

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  Team            SpNw S&Sm DVit GmPl InSp Sprt SpIl  AP UPI USA   Total 
  ----            ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  -- --- ---   -----
  Georgia Tech      1    1    3    3    1    1    1    1            156  
  N. Carolina       3    3    2    1    2    4    3    2            148  
  Michigan          2    2    1    4    3    5    2    3            146  
  Illinois          6    5    4    2   10    3    6    7            125  
  Duke              5    6    5    7    4   10    5    6            120  
  Syracuse         11    4    6    5    5    6   10    4            117  
  Georgetown        4    9    9    8    9    2    4    8            115  
  Kansas           10    7    8    6    8   11    7    5            106  
  Louisville        9    8    7   12    6    9    9    9             99  
  Auburn            8   10   15   10    7    7   11   10             90  
  Kentucky         19        12    9   11   19   13   11             53  
  Oklahoma         14   18   14   11   17   12   17   13             52  
  Memphis St.      20        11   14   20    8   12   15             47  
  Notre Dame        7   13   16   17   18   20        12             44  
  LSU              16   19   19   19   16   15    8   14             42  
  N.C. State            11   13        12        18   17             34  
  U.A.B.           17   20   17   15        17   15   16             30  
  UNLV                       10   13   14             18             29  
  Navy             13        18        15   13        19             27  
  Maryland         18   14                       14   19             19  
  Georgia          12             16                                 14  
  Iowa             15   15                       20                  13  
  Washington            12                                            9  
  DePaul                17             19        19                   8  
  Virginia Tech                        13                             8  
  St. John's                                14                        7  
  Houston               16                                            5  
  Tennessee                                 16                        5  
  Auburn                                         16                   5  
  Indiana                    20   18                                  4  
  Virginia                                  18                        3  
  Pittsburgh                      20                                  1