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 Tear here -------------------------------------- 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