The Syracuse University men's basketball team has been voted #25 in the USA Today-ESPN college basketball preseason poll.

The full list is below, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2008-09 records, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and final 2008-09 ranking:

1. Kansas (27) 27-8 770 10
2. Michigan State (30) 31-7 732 2
3. Texas 23-12 676 23
4. North Carolina (1) 34-4 653 1
5. Kentucky 22-14 635 -
6. Villanova 30-8 620 4
7. Purdue 27-10 586 14
8. Duke 30-7 528 11
9. West Virginia 23-12 501 -
10. Butler 26-6 408 25
11. Tennessee 21-13 406 -
12. California 22-11 370 -
13. Washington 26-9 364 16
14. Connecticut 31-5 361 3
15. Michigan 21-14 279 -
16. Oklahoma 30-6 244 7
17. Ohio State 22-11 241 -
18. Minnesota 22-11 151 -
19. Mississippi St. 23-13 149 -
20. Georgia Tech 12-19 136 -
21. Georgetown 16-15 134 -
22. Dayton 27-8 130 -
23. Louisville 31-6 123 5
24. Clemson 23-9 114 -
25. Syracuse 28-10 111 12

SU did not make the Associated Press top 25 preseason poll, coming in at #31 overall. The Orange received 83 points from the AP writers.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.