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Early 2014-15 Polls ranking Villanova in top 15

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Jared Wickerham

The 2013-14 NCAA Basketball season has ended, but basketball writers are already putting out their Top 25 for next season.

Of course these rankings will shift as transfers are announced and, more importantly, early NBA entries are declared. Here is the start.

Villanova is probably in the low double digit rankings. Seth Davis of SI and Rob Dauster of NBC Sports are the outliers; the former putting 'Nova at #4 and the latter placing the 'Cats at #18.

No other Big East team is noted in any of the rankings. What do you think?

# G. Parrish
[CBS]
Gleeson
[USA Today]
S. Davis
[SI]
E. Brennan
[ESPN]
J. Eisenberg
[Yahoo]
R. Dauster
[NBCsports]
D. Hanner
[RealGM]
J. Rothstein SBNation
1 Duke Blue Devils Duke Duke Arizona Arizona Arizona Arizona Arizona Duke
2 Arizona Wildcats Arizona Wisconsin Duke Duke Duke Kansas Kansas Wisconsin
3 Wisconsin Badgers Wisconsin Arizona Kentucky Kansas Wisconsin Duke Duke Arizona
4 Kansas Jayhawks Kansas Villanova Wisconsin Wisconsin Kansas Wisconsin Wisconsin Kansas
5 Florida Gators Kentucky UNC Wichita St. Kentucky Kentucky Florida UNC North Carolina
6 North Carolina Tar Heels UNC Kansas UNC UNC UNC Michigan Villanova Kentucky
7 Kentucky Wildcats Florida Michigan Virginia Florida Virginia Kentucky Michigan Florida
8 Wichita State Shockers Villanova Kentucky Florida Wichita St. Texas UNC Florida Michigan
9 Texas Longhorns Virginia Colorado Kansas Michigan San Diego St. Connecticut SMU Louisville
10 Virginia Cavaliers Louisville Texas UConn UConn SMU Virginia Louisville Wichita State
11 Villanova Wildcats SMU Baylor SMU Virginia Oklahoma Villanova Syracuse Villanova
12 SMU Mustangs Texas Whichita St. Louisville Villanova Wichita St. Wichita St. Wichita St. SMU
13 San Diego State Aztecs Wichita State UConn Villanova Texas Harvard VCU Colorado Texas
14 Iowa State Cyclones UCLA Florida VCU SMU Florida Louisville Texas Ohio State
15 Gonzaga Bulldogs San Diego St. Virginia Gonzaga San Diego St. Oregon Syracuse Virginia Virginia
16 Oklahoma Sooners UConn SMU Iowa St. x Gonzaga Ohio St. Kentucky VCU
17 Nebraska Cornhuskers Gonzaga Michigan State Michigan x VCU SMU Oregon Oregon
18 VCU Rams Michigan Syracuse Michigan St. x Villanova Colorado Oklahoma UConn
19 Connecticut Huskies MIchigan St. Iowa St. Texas x Iowa Baylor Iowa St. Michigan St.
20 Michigan Wolverines Syracuse Louisville Oklahoma x Michigan Texas Ohio St. Oklahoma
21 Louisville Cardinals Oklahoma Harvard Syracuse Orange x UConn Maryland San Diego St. Harvard
22 Ohio State Buckeyes VCU Gonzaga UCLA Bruins x Syracuse Iowa UCLA San Diego St.
23 Pittsburgh Panthers Stanford Oregon Oregon x Michigan St. UCLA VCU Minnesota
24 Michigan State Spartans Colorado Nebraska Kansas St. x UNLV Gonzaga Gonzaga UCLA
25 Stanford Cardinal Minnesota VCU Iowa Hawkeyes x Baylor Utah Michigan St. Dayton

Did we miss any pre-pre-pre-season rankings?