Tuesday, November 06, 2001
Duke, Maryland 1-2 in AP poll
UC 26th, Kentucky 4th
The Associated Press
Duke and Maryland were 1-2 Monday in the Associated Press' preseason college basketball poll, just the second time two teams from the same conference have held the top spots.
The other time also involved two schools from the Atlantic Coast Conference, when Georgia Tech and North Carolina were 1-2 before the 1985-86 season.
Duke, which returns three starters from last season's 35-4 national championship team, received 61 first-place votes and 1,787 points from a media panel.
Maryland, which lost to Duke last season in its first Final Four appearance, had six first-place votes and 1,634 points and matched the program's highest ranking.
The preseason No.1 ranking is the fifth for Duke and first since before the 1998-99 season.
“It's always an honor and very nice to be ranked No.1,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Experience means so much. Fortunately, this group has that.”
Illinois, which received two first-place votes, was third, followed by Kentucky, which was No.1 on three ballots. The rest of the top 10: UCLA, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Saint Joseph's.
The preseason Top 25 teams came from eight conferences. The Big 12 had five ranked teams — Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Texas and Oklahoma. The ACC, which also had North Carolina and Virginia, and the Big Ten — Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State and Indiana — had four teams each.
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