ACC Leads All Conferences with 7 Teams in Preseason Top 25 Men’s Basketball Rankings

Vashti Hurt

6 years ago

The Associated Press released their pre-season Top 25 men’s college basketball rankings Monday. The ACC had a conference high 7 schools in the poll, with three (Duke (4), Virginia (5) and UNC (8)), ranked the top ten.

Here are the full rankings:

(###) Number of first place votes


1	Kansas (37) Big 12 Record: 31-8	PV Rank 4 Points 1,581
2	Kentucky (19) SEC Record: 26-11	18 1,529
3	Gonzaga (1) West Coast Record: 32-5	8 1,461
4	Duke (4) ACC Record: 29-8	9 1,452
5	Virginia (2) ACC Record: 31-3	1 1,286
6	Tennessee (1) SEC Record: 26-9	13 1,268
7	Nevada Mountain West Record: 29-8	24 1,230
8	North Carolina ACC Record: 26-11	10 1,221
9	Villanova (1) Big East Record: 36-4	2 1,085
10	Michigan State Big Ten Record: 30-5	5 1,024
11	Auburn SEC Record: 26-8	19 974
12	Kansas State Big 12 Record: 25-12	– 922
13	West Virginia Big 12 Record: 26-11	15 678
14	Oregon Pac-12 Record: 23-13	– 638
15	Virginia Tech ACC Record: 21-12	– 630
16	Syracuse ACC Record: 23-14	– 620
17	Florida State ACC Record: 23-12	– 530
18	Mississippi State SEC Record: 25-12	– 451
19	Michigan Big Ten Record: 33-8	7 437
20	TCU Big 12 Record: 21-12	– 311
21	UCLA Pac-12 Record: 21-12	– 297
22	Clemson ACC Record: 25-10	20 268
23	LSU SEC Record: 18-15	– 187
24	Purdue Big Ten Record: 30-7	11 170
25	Washington Pac-12 Record: 21-13	– 165