USA Today/ESPN pre-season poll is out

Here’s a much more realistic top 25 pre-season list that that of the AP:

1. Baylor
2. Notre Dame
3. Tennessee
4. Connecticut
5. Stanford
6. Texas A&M
7. Miami
8. Duke
9. Louisville
10. Maryland
11. Georgetown
12. Georgia
13. Florida State
14. Penn State
15. Kentucky
16. Oklahoma
17. Rutgers
18. DePaul
19. North Carolina
20. Texas
21. Purdue
22. LSU
23. University of Southern California
24. Wisconsin-Green Bay
25. Michigan State

Others receiving votes: Gonzaga (31-5) 70; Ohio State (24-10) 61; UCLA (28-5) 59; St. John’s (22-11) 57; Marist (31-3) 46; Xavier (29-3) 41; Iowa (22-9) 35; California (18-16) 20; Iowa State (22-11) 20; Vanderbilt (20-12) 19; Georgia Tech (24-11) 18; Dayton (21-12) 16; Middle Tennessee (23-8) 10; Temple (24-9) 10; TCU (22-11) 8; South Dakota State (19-14) 7; Texas Tech (22-11) 7; Marquette (24-9) 3; Syracuse (25-10) 2; Houston (26-6) 1; Memphis (21-13) 1; West Virginia (24-10) 1.