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CHN ranks the Top
144 teams and releases a preview per day with #1 being unveiled on opening
day of the 2005-06 college basketball season.
 The
massive undertaking that became the 2004-2005
Top 144 Preview at
CHN proved to be successful. It is no easy task to
rank and preview 144 teams in June, yet the rankings compared
very well to other preseason rankings which came out months
later.
Twenty-two of CHN’s top 30 teams ended the season in the Top 30
of the RPI. Dick Vitale had only 20 of his preseason Top 30 end
the season in the top 30. The Top 144 beat out the USA Today
preseason poll and equaled Andy Katz’s preseason top 25 and the
AP Top 25 with 18 teams finishing the season in the top 25 of
the RPI.
Some people were thrilled to see their school ranked, others
were not so thrilled, to say the least, at where their team
ended up. These previews were used as bulletin board material
for teams upset with the seeming lack of respect. Sometimes they
were right, but many times CHN proved to be right as well.
The
2005-2006 version of the top
144 will be bigger and better than ever with more information,
more details and of course the predictions on 144 teams in
college basketball. CHN will be revealing one preview a day
starting with #144 on June 20th
and ending with #1 on opening day of the college basketball season.
Joel
Welser
College Preview Editor
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