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23 The Daily Tar Heel Basketball 78-79 AP preseason poll 1. Gukr(39) 27-7 918 2. UCLA 25-3 764 3. Notre Dame (1) 23-8 685 4. Louisville 23-7 492 5. Kansas (1) 24-5 429 6. Texas 26-5 390 7. Michigan State 25-5 348 8. Michigan 16-11 342 9. Syracuse 22-6 243 10. Indiana .21-8 210 11. Kentucky 30-2 199 1i N.C. State . . . 21-10 182 1 a Southern Cat 14-13 142 14. LSU 18-9 128 15. Rutgers 24-7 108 16. North Carolina 23-8 104 17. San Francisco 23-6 95 1 & Marquette 24-4 74 19. Alabama 17-10 72 20. Nevada-Las Vegas 20-8 ' 62 Others receiving votes, listed alphabetically: Arizona, Arkansas, Brlgham Young. Dayton, Detroit. Cincinnati, Florida State, Furman, Georgia Tech, Houston, Illinois State, Indiana State, La Salle, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Nebraska. Nevada-Reno, New Mexico, New Mexico State. Ohio State, Oregon State. Providence, Purdue. Rhode Island. Rice, South Carolina, Southern Illinois, St John's, Utah, Virginia. 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I I j ,Mtiniiil' "i "r . .';! -: : $ .4 Tp-- , rr mW jgy--- .-:-:-:-:;:sf;-:v.;.v - '3sC:"-T"''",,P":' (V SC5 West Franldln St. Dcvntovvn Chapel Hill i ssaasaasiS'giaB j 1 TJ he No. 1 ranking in college J J basketball can be like holding a 'double-edged" sword one slip J and you cut yourself. Duke coach Bill Foster is painfully aware of that position. J "I'm really proud," says the coach of the nation's top-ranked team, "but on the other hand, everyone will be shooting for us this year. That No. 1 ranking will give a lot of teams incentive to beat us this season." Foster's Blue Devils find themselves 1-. it. .a. .i j. ir t. i was in last season. The Wildcats were ranked No.l at the start nf the vear and had to prove themselves from the beginning. They did with some difficulty-p before winning the NCAA champioiiship by beating this same Duke team in the finals. "We halve no room for slipping," said Foster, "so it's not going to be easy, especially with the schedule we play this year. I think, like any other team, we'll be all right if westavawavfrominiuries. - j j "But, honestly, our schedule is so tough that we can't afford to play any game with one of our starters out. Usually, there are a few games during the season when you can get away with less than your full complement of players. Not this year, though." Foster, in part, is responsible for one of Duke's toughest schedules in recent history Building up the Duke basketball program in the past four years, it has been part of Foster's philosophy to play a stronger schedule. By reaching the NCAA finals last season, Duke hit one of the high points in the school's basketball history after : c j i T-i ri : i years oi acsuuory piay. i nc diuc ucvus had arid , still have one of the youngest teams in the country, with only one senior guard Jim Spanarkel in the starting lineup. Duke was made the nation's No. 1 team in The Associated Press preseason poll released early last week, collecting 38 first-place ballots and 918 points. UCLA was a distant second in the voting by the nation's sports writers and broadcasters with 764 points. The Bruins collected eight first-place ballots from the voters. The voters dropped defending national champion Kentucky to No. 11, obviously on the basis of the Wildcats Notre Dame, one of the Final Four in last year's championship round in St. Louis, was accorded the No. 3 position on the basis of 685 points. The Fighting Irish received one ballot for No. 1. Louisville and Kansas, the only other team to collect a first-place vote, followed in the voting. Louisville landed the No. 4 spot with 492 points while Kansas gained No. 5 with 429. Texas, winner of last year's National Invitational Tournament, was placed in the No. 6 position with 390 points. Michigan State was given 348 points for No. 7 while Big Ten colleague Michigan was close behind in No. 8 with 342. Syracuse, with 243 points, and Indiana, 210, finished out the Top Ten. After Kentucky, the remainder of the Top Twenty included No. 12N.C. State; No. 13 Southern Cal.; No. 14 LSU; No. 15 Rutgers; No. 16 North Carolina; No. 17 San Francisco; No. 18 Marquette; No. 19 Alabama, and No. 20 Nevada Las Vegas. Last season's final Top Twenty poll, taken before the NCAA finals: Kentucky, UCLA, DePaul, Michigan State, Arkansas, Notre Dame, Duke, Marquette, Louisville, Kansas, San Francisco, New Mexico, Indiana, Utah, Florida State, North Carolina, Texas, Detroit, Miami Ohio and Penn. q
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