Both Louisville and Georgetown received eight first-place votes and 217 total points in the preseason Big East basketball coaches poll.
Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own teams, thus Bobby Gonzalez's first-place vote for Seton Hall is noticeably absent.
The full preseason poll looks like this:
- Louisville (8)- 217
- Georgetown (8)- 217
- Marquette- 191
- Pittsburgh- 170
- Syracuse- 153
- Connecticut- 149
- Villanova- 143
- Providence- 141
- Notre Dame- 122
- West Virginia- 112
- Depaul- 79
- Cincinnati- 62
- Seton Hall- 56
- St. John's- 52
- Rutgers- 32
- South Florida- 23