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Hoosiers, Cardinals and Wildcats 1-2-3 in Pre-Season Men's Basketball AP Poll

Mike Dickbernd

The three projected best teams in men's college basketball are within a two-hour drive of Louisville.Indiana is No. 1 in The Associated Press' preseason Top 25 for the third time and the first since the 1979-80 season.The Hoosiers return all five starters, including 7-foot sophomore Cody Zeller.They received 43 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel Friday. Louisville and Kentucky, the teams ranked second and third, received the rest of the first-place votes with Louisville getting 20 and the defending national champion the other two.Ohio State and Michigan join Indiana as Big Ten teams in the top five. The last time a conference had three teams in the preseason top five was 2008-09 when Connecticut, Louisville and Pittsburgh of the Big East were second, third and fifth, respectively.North Carolina State, Kansas, Duke, Syracuse and Florida round out the top 10.