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AP Top 25 College Basketball Poll: UNC Tar Heels First Unanimous Preseason No. 1
The North Carolina Tar Heels are the No. 1 college basketball team in the nation, according to the AP preseason Top 25 rankings, which were released on Saturday.
UNC becomes the first unanimous No. 1 since the preseason AP poll began in 1981-82, and just the second team in history to be the preseason No. 1 for two consecutive seasons.
The Tar Heels, who were No. 1 in the final poll last season, joins UNLV in 1989-90 and 1990-91 as the only schools to do that in two straight seasons. It also marks
The Tar Heels return its top six scorers, including Tyler Hansbrough, the unanimous National Player of the Year, after he decided to return to UNC for his senior year. UNC also returns Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington.
Last Thursday,
The preseason AP poll last season did an accurate job as the top four teams (North Carolina, UCLA Bruins, Memphis Tigers and Kansas Jayhawks) all reached the Final Four, with Kansas winning it all in San Antonio.
UNC reached the Final Four last season, but was knocked off by the Jayhawks.
The other Final Four teams, UCLA Bruins and Memphis Tigers, are No. 4 and No. 12, respectively.
UConn Huskies and Louisville Cardinals are ranked No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, as Pittsburgh Panthers round out the top 5, continuing the success of the Big East conference. Notre Dame Fighting Irish, another Big East team, are also ranked in the top 10.
To see the full top 25 rankings from the preseason AP Top 25 Poll for college basketball, please look below:
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4. UCLA 0-0 1,487 |
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8. Duke 0-0 1,250 |
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9. Notre Dame 0-0 1,243 |
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10. Gonzaga 0-0 1,162 |
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11. Purdue 0-0 1,099 |
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18. USC 0-0 414 |
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20. Davidson 0-0 347 |
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23. Villanova 0-0 256 |
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Others Receiving Votes Xavier 154, UNLV 143, Baylor 128, Saint Mary's 112, Syracuse 83, Kentucky 75, Ohio State 64, LSU 31, Texas A&M 30, Washington 19, West Virginia 17, Virginia Tech 16, Brigham Young 16, Alabama 16, Siena 13, Washington State 11, Vanderbilt 11, Clemson 11, Arizona 11, Temple 10, Virginia Commonwealth 8, Creighton 7, Butler 7, New Mexico 3, Cleveland State 2, UAB 2, Stanford 2, San Diego 1, American University 1, Cal State Northridge 1, Saint Joseph's 1, Drake 1, Miami (OH) 1. |
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