A week after falling from "just outside of the preseason top 25" (26th) to 27th in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25, a pair of huge wins propelled Mark Gottfried's Alabama men's basketbale team into the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 Coaches Poll, released about an hour ago. Alabama makes its 2001-02 debut in the poll at 22nd, with 106 points.
Elsewhere in the Coaches Top 25: 1. Duke (duh!) 2. Illinois 3. Kansas 4. UCLA (Bama's opponent on Dec. 8) 5. Maryland 6. Florida 7. Arizona 8. Iowa (plays #14 Memphis in the Guardian's Classic semifinals opposite Bama) 9. Missouri (Bama's Guardian's Classic semifinal opponent on Tuesday) 10. Virginia 11. Michigan State 12. Kentucky 13. Stanford 14. Memphis (plays #8 in the Guardian's Classic semifinals opposite Bama) 15. Georgetown 16. Oklahoma State 17. Boston College 18. Syracuse 19. St. Joseph's 20. Indiana 21. Fresno State 22. ALABAMA 23. Oklahoma 24. Texas 25. W. Kentucky Notables receiving votes: Tennessee (23), North Carolina (15), Utah (14), Ole Miss (7), It's very eerie that only two teams from the SEC West received any votes in this week's poll, and one of them WASN'T Arkansas. To unsubscribe from this list just send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a BLANK subject line and the single word "UNSUBSCRIBE" (without the quotes) in the body or visit http://www.RollTideFan.net
