National Preview Magazines: Consensus Top 25

Shawn Siegel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:28:06 -0800

Don't like CollegeHoops.net's Top 144 Ranking? Here's what the major annual preview magazines have to say, including a consensus average based on all three.

There are certainly some interesting differences between the publications. Michigan is in the Top 10 in Lindy's but in the others' Top 20. Oklahoma, Georgia Tech, and UCONN are in 2 of 3 Top 15's, but the 3rd doesn't even rank them. West Virginia's wide spread is from 5th in Sporting News to 18th in Lindy's. Vanderbilt only appears in Athlon, and are all the way up at 16th.

SN = Sporting News.

	TEAM	ATHLON	LINDY'S	SN	AVG	vs CHN
1	Kansas	1	1	1	1.0	1
2	Michigan St	2	3	3	2.7	3
3	Texas	3	2	6	3.7	5
4	North Carolina	5	5	4	4.7	4
5	Kentucky	6	8	2	5.3	6
6	Purdue	4	6	7	5.7	10
7	Villanova	7	4	9	6.7	2
8	Tennessee	8	12	12	10.7	9
9t	Butler	12	7	14	11.0	11
9t	West Virginia	10	18	5	11.0	7
11	Duke	18	11	8	12.3	8
12	California	14	10	16	13.3	15
13t	Washington	17	16	13	15.3	12
13t	Mississippi St	15	21	10	15.3	23
15	Michigan	23	9	24	18.7	14
16	Maryland	22	20	20	20.7	20
17	Dayton	25	17	23	21.7	16

-- Below teams only in 2 of 3 rankings --

18	Oklahoma	9	14		7.7	37
19	Georgia Tech	13	13		8.7	13
20	UCONN	11		15	8.7	19
21	Georgetown	21		11	10.7	17
22	Louisville	19	15		11.3	27
23	Ohio St		22	19	13.7	13
24	Clemson	24		17	13.7	22
25	Illinois		25	21	15.3	21

-- Other teams appearig in a magazine Top 25 --

Vanderbilt	16			47
Wake Forest			18	44
Tulsa		19		38
BYU	20			42
Notre Dame			22	60
UCLA		23		29
South Carolina		24		30
Florida St			25	52

-- Teams in CHN's Top 25 but not in any other --

Minnesota	18
Xavier	24
Kansas State	25

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