NOW YOU KNOW

Where NCAA men’s basketball champions ranked in the Associated Press preseason poll (Arizona, Kansas, and Oklahoma were ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in this season’s preseason poll):

2002 ... Maryland No. 2 in preseason

2001 ... Duke No. 2

2000 ... Michigan St. No. 3

1999 ... Connecticut No. 2

1998 ...Kentucky No. 8

1997 ... Arizona No. 19

1996 ... Kentucky No. 1

1995 ... UCLA No. 6

Source: World Features Syndicate