My preseason Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball ballot

Well, the easy part is out of the way. Now, it gets a whole lot more challenging for the rest of the season. I've been enlisted to be one of the 65 Associated Press national men's college basketball top 25 weekly voters for the coming season. I was a voter nine years ago in the weekly college football poll, but this season will mark my first as a hoops voter. Yeah, yeah...I know what some of you are saying - "Who cares about polls? They don't mean anything." Hey, maybe those of you that feel that way are right, but I at least contend the AP poll means a lot more than the coaches poll - and that's no fault of the coaches. During the course of a season, coaches have no time to analyze the national landscape of teams and make accurate