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MITSUBISHI CIS TOP TEN TUESDAY (#9)
OTTAWA (CIS) – The Carleton Ravens lead the first CIS basketball national rankings of the 2008-09 season.

The Ravens, who saw their extraordinary streak of five straight CIS titles come to an end last spring, top the inaugural coaches poll for the third consecutive season and for the sixth time in seven years after receiving 36 of 39 first-place votes. The reigning OUA champions led all 14 polls in 2007-08.

The Ravens are once again off to a furious start this fall posting a 10-1 non-conference record, including a perfect 6-0 mark against CIS competition. They will play two more pre-season games this weekend down in the United States, against Cincinnati and Morehead State, before kicking off the OUA schedule at Windsor and Western Ontario, on November 7-8.

Rounding out the first men’s basketball poll are No. 2 UBC, which received the three other first-place votes, No. 3 Concordia, No. 4 Windsor, No. 5 Victoria, No. 6 StFX, No. 7 McGill, No. 8 Calgary, No. 9 Ottawa and No. 10 Dalhousie.

The reigning CIS champion Brock Badgers finished 12th in the voting.

MEN’S BASKETBALL
(regular season record) / (votes – first place) / (previous rankings)

1.  Carleton (0-0) / 465 votes – 36 / (-)
2.  UBC (2-0) / 424 –3 / (-)
3.  Concordia (0-0) / 293 / (-)
4.  Windsor (0-0) / 250 / (-)
5.  Victoria (2-0) / 245 / (-)
6.  StFX (0-0) / 240 / (-)
7.  McGill (0-0) / 216 / (-)
8.  Calgary (0-0) / 187 / (-)
9.  Ottawa (0-0) / 184 / (-)
10.  Dalhousie (0-0) / 147 / (-)

Other teams receiving votes: Cape Breton (68), Brock (58), Western Ontario (57), Simon Fraser (51), Waterloo (40).

Courtesy Canadian Interuniversity Sport