College hoops team draft

Here are our suggested league guidelines for a college hoops team draft, along with our draft board for this season:

SUGGESTED LEAGUE GUIDELINES

^ A standard serpentine-style draft serves as the best place to begin.

^ The ideal distribution of talent would be as follows: 5 teams drafted by 8 owners, 6 teams drafted by 7 owners, 7 teams drafted by 6 owners or 8 teams drafted by 5 owners.

^ Points should be divided equally between success in the regular season/conference tournaments and in the NCAA tournament.

^ Regular season point distribution should come in the form of a "snapshot" of the Associated Press Top 25 poll on the following dates: December 31, January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25 and March 12. On those dates, points would be allocated in the following manner: 1st place (100 points), 2nd place (94 points), 3rd place (91 points), 4th place (88 points), 5th place (85 points), 6th place (78 points), 7th place (75 points), 8th place (72 points), 9th place (68 points), 10th place (65 points), 11th place (58 points), 12th place (55 points), 13th place (52 points), 14th place (48 points), 15th place (45 points), 16th place (40 points), 17th place (36 points), 18th place (32 points), 19th place (28 points), 20th place (25 points), 21th place (22 points), 22nd place (18 points), 23rd place (15 points), 24th place (12 points), 25th place (10 points). Additionally, 90 points are to be awarded to the winner of a regular season conference title and an additional 90 points to the winner of a conference title tournament.

^ The other half of the points, in the form of NCAA tournament points, are to be distributed as follows: 50 points for qualifying for the tournament, 100 points for one of your teams qualifying as a #1, #2, #3, #4 seed in any region, 40 points for qualifying as a #5, #6, #7 or #8 seed in any region, 40 points for winning a first-round tournament game, 75 points for winning a second-round tournament game, 150 points for winning a third-round tournament game, 175 for winning a regional final game, 250 points for winning a national semifinal game and 500 points for winning the national title.

This Wednesday night on our FANTASYDRAFTHELP.COM INSIDER program (7-9 PM EDT) we will be holding our 2008-2009 draft. Here is our draft board (numbers in parentheses indicate where each school placed in our composite average of where they placed in major preseason polls):

TOP TIER

1. North Carolina (1)

SECOND TIER
2. UConn (4)

3. Louisville (2)

4. UCLA (3)

5. Duke (5)

6. Texas (6)

7. Michigan State (8)

8. Memphis (9)

9. Gonzaga (11)

10. Pittsburgh (7)

11. Notre Dame (10)

12. Tennessee (12)

13. Purdue (13)

14. Oklahoma (14)

THIRD TIER

15. Arizona State (18)

16. Miami (15)

17. USC (19)

18. Georgetown (17)

19. Marquette (16)

20. Wake Forest (24T)

21. Florida (22T)

22. Davidson (22T)

23. Wisconsin (20)

24. Xavier (24T)

25. Villanova (27T)

26. Baylor (32T)

27. Kansas (21)

28. UNLV (29T)

29. Drake (26)

30. St. Mary’s (38)

FOURTH TIER

31. Ohio State (34)

32. Vanderbilt (27T)

33. Stanford (29T)

34. Butler (31)

35. Clemson (32T)

36. Kent State (36T)

37. Creighton

38. Nevada

39. South Alabama

40. Cleveland State

41. Tulsa

42. Southern Illinois

43. Indiana (35)

44. Washington State (36T)

45. Siena

46. Miami (OH)

47. Western Michigan

48. Syracuse (39)