NCAA Basketball 09 Top 25

by pastapadre
Posted October 14th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

EA Sports has revealed the Top 25 rated teams in NCAA Basketball 09. Leading the way this year is North Carolina. The winner of the National Championship last year Kansas comes in at #17. I’m especially encouraged to see Washington slip in at #25. The way things are going for teams in Washington State though will I’m fully expecting a terrible season ahead.

Continue on to view the full Top 25. IGN has also posted up news on and an interview regarding the partnership with Blue Ribbon, which is part of what went into formulating the team ratings.

1. North Carolina
2. Pittsburgh
3. Notre Dame
4. UCLA
5. Connecticut
6. Oklahoma
7. Louisville
8. Duke
9. Tennessee
10. Texas
11. Memphis
12. Purdue
13. Michigan State
14. Miami
15. Arizona State
16. Baylor
17. Kansas
18. Marquette
19. St. Mary’s
20. Syracuse
21. Gonzaga
22. Villanova
23. USC
24. Wisconsin
25. Washington

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emtiaz

Its an awesome article. you can find more about it on http://www.itbuzz.co.cc/2009/03/ea-sports-ncaa-ba...

ryan jones

St. Marys? Where Davidson at?

jose conseco

i am a ku fan and i dont have so high of hopes as i did last year i mean 17th isnt bad they have people like tyrone appleton markief morris sharon collins cole aldrich mario little quintrell thomas they look study this season

shane

Where the "F" is The University Of Kentucky?? The end of the world is upon us if the #1 college program in the history of college basketball is not in the top 25!!!

Boilers

Badgerboy21, Dont worry Chris Kramer will do what Michael Flowers could not do: Stop Stephone Curry. Purdue at 12 is way too low. But thats just how we like it. ND at 3 is a joke. Usually you have to play a little defense to be a top 5 team, unless EA Sports is making the poll.

winston sims

what my auburn tigers arent in there

sean

wow i love ND my cousins go there i am gonna go there but the irish at 3 is such bowl in my mind they should be 8 not 3 these polls overall are just messed up

scdb12

cant wait for this game

STL63122

Indiana should be in the top 10....oh wait...everybody left....... :-(

please turn it around, Crean!

reapbo

how u not rank Kentucky da best basketball program ever

kevin

Notre Dame is number three but still not projected to win the big east. wow Lil hansborough time Jackson, McAlarney, and Harangody, All Big East thats why were top 5 plus we got peoples, Ayers, Zeller and Hillsland BEAST

FLyersrulle

I agree with jose canseco at the top, I do not think West Virginia is a top 10 school nor a top 15 school but I do think they are worthy of a top 20 spot somewhere in there, heck maybe even the top 15 who knows.

r00tabaga

...yeah I heard good stuff too bout the 'Mook too. Flynn & Devo should kill it!

Eric

where's penn state is all i want to know

zack

Yeah that snub two years ago still makes me mad and then of course last year the injuries just killed this team.But I have a feeling this team will be special and I have heard good things about Mookie Jones.

Mike G.

Syracuse is going to be much improved this year. Johnny Flynn could be the best PG in America by the end of the year. Paul Harris was much improved last year, will be even better this year. Eric Devendorf and Andy Rautins back from injury. Arinze Onauku is a beast at the 5. Watch out America. Keep your eye out for Mookie Jones, Frosh, has a chance to be special. Even the ahole's that run the NCAA Selection process won't keep them out of the tourny this year.

Roy

With 7 Big East Conference teams ranked in the Top 25 in this season's game, it looks like the Big East Conference, one of my favorite conferences in college basketball, will be stronger this season. The team I'm looking out for is the Syracuse Orange. But don't get too overreacted, b/c the suprising team in the Big East should be the Pitt Panthers.

Sam

I love seeing ND up at number 3. This could be the season where we get back to the Sweet 16 and maybe even a little bit further.

slacker77

I cant wait for this game. Next year for 2010 I want online dynasties.

Bleednornge

Well it looks like they will have Oklahoma State underrated just like in NCAA09. Coach Ford will just have to take his McDonald's All Americans on the road to beat that overrated Notre Dame team....

Paul

yeah, go UW and Gonzaga!

uncle hershel

why is tennessee so low??? and where is davidson?

slacker77

what no love for univ of Michigan. LOL. We could be a dark horse to make the dance.

q-dizzle

WTF? Where is Grant High School?

r00tabaga

...or how about Austin Peay Tech State ...trust me, they're nasty!

E z E

I'll give you a team to watch out for, "The University Of Dayton"

BigDiC

[quote comment="42050"]Wake Forest? You think that Wake should be ranked? I know they had a good recruiting class, but they have no claim to being a preseason top 25 team.[/quote]
na wake forrest is gonna be dirty besides their recruiting class.

BigDiC

[quote comment="42031"]chill mr. canseco. everything will be alright[/quote]
hahaha

zack

and our freshman played all game*

zack

Cuse is healthy after missing Devo for most of the year and Rautins for all.Not to mention they were missing two other scholarship players all year.So we had no depth and had are freshman all game so that got them some great experience.Cuse will be back this year and go to at least the E8.

r00tabaga

20. 'Cuse

This might be our year!

ALEXGUY96

wow notre dame 3! baylor 16! crazy

boucher

MORNING NCAA TOP 25

Jonathon

[quote comment="42031"]chill mr. canseco. everything will be alright[/quote]

the 'roids must be acting up again...

catgrizinsider

Actually, Harvard had one of the best recruiting classes this past year, thanks to a Mr. Amaker at the helm. So whoever mentioned Harvard, well, you might see them do something special sooner or later.

As for smaller schools, no love for Davidson?

TheStat

High spot for Louisville for us losing our two centers, David Padgett and Character.

I would have expected us to be may be 8 or 9 given that it will take a while to break in the #1 center in the nation.

News didn't get much better today with T'Will going down for 6 weeks.

I fully expect Louisville to not look like a Top10 team early missing T'Will and breaking in a freshman center, but by the end of the year they could be the best team in the country.

meh

All I want is someone to put up a video of Allan Houston from Live 09 up..
as well as the NBA games sales figures, as well as Facebreakers.

Badgerboy 21

UW a steady top 25 pick, they just get it done, unless stephen curry is anywhere around.

thatlookseasy

Wake Forest? You think that Wake should be ranked? I know they had a good recruiting class, but they have no claim to being a preseason top 25 team.

Miami

Yo what the hell? Where is Westchester Community College. Kids are straight ballers

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