Duke Starts This Season Where It Ended the Last

Duke will start the college basketball season where it left off--on top of the Associated Press college basketball poll.

The Blue Devils, who won the NCAA title last March, were the clear-cut No. 1 choice of a nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.

Indiana was second, Arkansas third.

Duke has the longest streak of being ranked, having been in every poll since the fifth week of the 1986-87 season.

Of the Pacific 10 teams, Arizona was fifth, UCLA 11th and Arizona State 24th.

Nevada Las Vegas is absent for the first time since the preseason poll of 1987.

The Top 25 teams in the Associated Press’ preseason college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 1990-91 record, total points based on 25 points for a first place vote to one point for a 25th place vote and last season’s final ranking:

No Team Rec. Pts Pv 1 Duke (49) 32-7 1,606 6 2 Indiana (11) 29-5 1,533 3 3 Arkansas (3) 34-4 1,390 2 4 Kentucky 22-6 1,278 9 5 Arizona 28-7 1,276 8 6 LSU (1) 20-10 1,171 22 7 Ohio St. 27-4 1,158 5 8 North Carolina 29-6 1,135 4 9 Seton Hall (1) 25-9 1,096 13 10 St. John’s 23-9 1,077 20 11 UCLA 23-9 1,048 16 12 Kansas 27-8 889 12 13 Oklahoma St. 24-8 864 14 14 Utah 30-4 684 10 15 Connecticut 20-11 628 -- 16 Georgetown 19-13 532 -- 17 Alabama 23-10 483 19 18 DePaul 20-9 364 24 19 Oklahoma 20-15 341 -- 20 Michigan 14-15 329 -- 21 Iowa 21-11 322 -- 22 Wake Forest 19-11 319 -- 23 Georgia Tech 17-13 258 -- 24 Arizona St. 20-10 247 -- 25 Louisville 14-16 103 --