Cards, Hoyas are Big East co-favorites

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:

1. Louisville (8)- 217
   
1. Georgetown (8)- 217
   
3. Marquette- 191
   
4. Pittsburgh- 170
   
5. Syracuse- 153
   
6. Connecticut- 149
   
7. Villanova- 143
   
8. Providence- 141
   
9. Notre Dame- 122
   
10. West Virginia- 112
    
11. Depaul- 79
    
12. Cincinnati- 62
    
13. Seton Hall- 56
    
14. St. John's- 52
    
15. Rutgers- 32
    
16. South Florida- 23

Don't want to call the coaches liars or anything, but I'm going to go ahead and say that Cincinnati doesn't make the Big East Tournament. More on that this week.