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NCAA Basketball Power Rankings Rank LW Team 11 - Indiana Hoosiers Eric Gordon has been the focal point of nearly all preseason talk about Indiana, and rightfully so: he averaged 27.7 points per game on their trip to the Bahamas and might be the nation's best two-guard not named Chris Lofton. A lesser-covered story outside of Hoosier country is that of Eli Holman, a 6-foot-10 freshman who might be their starting center -- if the NCAA declares him academically eligible in time for the season. IU blog Inside the Hall has been all over the Holman story, first printing an e-mail from Holman's school board that said he was a "victim of sloppy administrators" in his Oakland-area high school, and then digging up an old (also brilliant) quote from Holman about turning his life around: "Take it from a guy who's been there. You know what I'm saying? Live the streets, smoke the weed, sold the weed, got shot. Take it from somebody that's been there, that's 6-10, that's an easy target. Take it from me. Believe me. Stay off the streets. Go to school, stay in class man." 12 - USC Trojans A strange thing that came out of UCLA's media day, from the Los Angeles Times: Bruins freshman Kevin Love seemed to hint that O.J. Mayo's "inadvertent" pick-up game elbow that broke Daniel Hackett's jaw in September wasn't truly accidental. Here's what Love said: "An elbow, yeah, right. Dan's a good friend of mine too. I'm never going to lay a hand or a lay a fist or elbow on a teammate like that." Hand? First? Elbow? USC's official word was was that it was an errant elbow, and Hackett is on record saying that Mayo felt bad about he incident. What does Love know that the rest of us don't? 13 -- Texas Longhorns The saga of Longhorns freshman forward Gary Johnson, a four-star recruit who was diagnosed with an unspecified heart condition during a physical in late May, took a semi-positive turn on Thursday. On the eve of Texas' first practice, trainer Fred Burnett cleared Johnson to participate ... but also announced that he had not yet been OK'd to play in games. Johnson is the prize recruit of the 'Horns' 2007 freshman class, a Houston product who coach Rick Barnes told the Austin American-Statesman was like a "more explosive" version of ex-Texas star P.J. Tucker. If Johnson is given the go-ahead to appear in games -- and whether that will happen is unclear -- he could potentially start at the four, allowing last year's power forward, Damion James, to move to his more natural role as a three. 14 -- Arkansas Razorbacks From the most-promising-offseasons department: Hogs guard Patrick Beverley had the best summer of any player on either of USA Basketball's two college teams. He played on the squad that actually won a medal -- his Under-19s silvered in Serbia, going 8-1, whereas the Pan Am Games team finished fifth in Brazil -- and had rather remarkable stats. Beverley led the team in scoring (13.0 ppg), minutes (27.8 mpg), assists (3.2 apg) and was somehow second in rebounding (5.3 rpg) despite being just 6-foot-1. He also had a 2.9-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio, a nice jump from the 1.6-to-1 ratio he posted while leading Arkansas in scoring as a freshman last season. 15 -- Texas A&M Aggies Villanova made the most noise at Midnight Madness in '06 by bringing in surprise guests 50 Cent and Tony Yayo. Texas A&M is going large this year -- and announcing it in advance -- with Soulja Boy, the rapper behind YouTube sensation (and national chart-topper) Crank Dat. The how-to video for Crank Dat's signature dance has been viewed 10.1 million times on YouTube and spawned thousands of home-video imitations. Maroon Madness attendees are no doubt hoping new coach Mark Turgeon will give the Soulja Boy dance a try, but will probably settle for another run to the Sweet 16. With Josh Carter, Dominique Kirk and Joseph Jones back in the lineup, and stud freshman center DeAndre Jordan on the way in, A&M has the talent to do at least that this year. 16 -- Oregon Ducks With four key starters back from last year's Elite Eight team -- Bryce Taylor, Maarty Leunen, Tajaun Porter and Malik Hairston -- the Ducks are worthy of being in the top 16. But here's the reason I can't see them surpassing UCLA, USC or Washington State in the Pac-10: Not a single player other than departed point guard Aaron Brooks had a higher assist percentage than turnover percentage last season: Player Asst% TO% Aaron Brooks 24.0 17.0 Bryce Taylor 10.6 14.1 Maarty Leunen 12.1 16.5 Tajuan Porter 12.3 21.0 Malik Hairston 14.4 17.9 Chamberlain Oguchi 8.7 18.8 Those numbers aren't promising, especially for Porter, who will be expected to do plenty of ballhandling. Look for freshman floor general Kamyron Brown, a cousin of former Arizona star Miles Simon, to get some serious PT at the point.

ON THE CUSP: Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Ohio State, Kentucky, N.C. State, Duke, Southern Illinois, LSU, Stanford, Kansas State, Syracuse, Butler, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pittsburgh.

** Item was corrected from the earlier version to state this year's Memphis-Tennessee game. We regret the error.

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