The defending national champion Duke Blue Devils lead the preseason AP College Basketball Poll, snagging 55 of 65 first-place votes.
AP College Basketball Poll: Nine Teams Appear On Every AP Voter’s Ballot
The release of the first AP Poll for college basketball produces a lot of data to analyze. Two trends in particular may be telling.
First, there are just nine teams that appear on every AP voter’s ballot: Butler, Duke, Florida, Gonzaga, Kansas State, Michigan State, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse. That’s more or less a who’s who of this year in college basketball, and includes seven of the top ten teams. Of those teams, the lowest-ranked squad is the one that lost in the NCAA Tournament final on a failed buzzer-beater: Butler comes in 17th.
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