2009 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: January 4, January 18, February 1, February 15, March 1 and March 15. 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.

NOTE: Teams are listed along with their ranking in our average of a number of major preseason polls.

DRAFT BOARD

TOP TIER
1 Kansas (1)
2 Michigan State (2)
3 Texas (3)
4 Kentucky (4)
5 Villanova (7)
6 North Carolina (5)
7 Purdue (6)
8 West Virginia (8)

SECOND TIER
9 Butler (11)
10 Tennessee (9)
11 Duke (10)
12 Washington (14)
13 UConn (12)
14 California (13)
15 Mississippi State (15)

THIRD TIER
16 Oklahoma (16)
17 Georgetown (17)
18 Ohio State (19)
19 Michigan (18)
20 Georgia Tech (20)

FOURTH TIER
21 Dayton (23)
22 BYU (29)
23 Louisville (21)
24 Clemson (22)
25 Minnesota (26)
26 Vanderbilt (24T)
27 Maryland (24T)
28 Illinois (27T)
29 Wake Forest (27)
30 Notre Dame (30)
31 Syracuse (31T)
32 Florida State (31T)

FIFTH TIER
33 Siena
34 Xavier
35 Gonzaga
36 Oklahoma State
37 UCLA
38 Florida
39 Northern Iowa
40 Tulsa
41 USC
42 Pittsburgh
43 Missouri
44 South Carolina
45 Kansas State