DUKE BLUE DEVILS NO. 1 IN PRESEASON MEN'S ESPN/USA TODAY COACHES' POLL

Defending champion Duke begins the 2010-'11 men's college basketball poll on top of the preseason men's basketball ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll.

The Blue Devils received 29 of 31 first-place votes in the poll. No. 2 Michigan State received the other two first-place votes.

The top five teams in the preseason ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll:

Duke    
Mich. St.    
Kansas St.    
Pitt    
Ohio St.

No. 6 is Villanova, followed by Kansas, Purdue, North Carolina and No. 10 Kentucky.
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