John FeinsteinNational Public Radio (Washington, DC)
Twitter: @jfeinsteinbooks
About: John Feinstein is the bestselling author of Moment of Glory, Are You Kidding Me? (with Rocco Mediate), Living on the Black, Tales from Q School, Last Dance, Next Man Up, Let Me Tell You a Story (with Red Auerbach), Caddy for Life, Open, The Punch, The Last Amateurs, The Majors, A March to Madness, A Civil War, A Good Walk Spoiled, A Season on the Brink, Play Ball, Hard Courts, and four sports mystery novels for young readers. He writes for The Washington Post, Washingtonpost.com, and Golf Digest.


Ballot Score

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Nov 2, 2015Pre-Season Rankings for John Feinstein
1North Carolina (35)
0-0Actual: 1
Highest: 1 - 35 Voters
Lowest: 8 - Graham Couch
1566
Points
2Maryland (14)
0-0Actual: 3
Highest: 1 - 14 Voters
Lowest: 7 - 3 Voters
1487
Points
3Kansas (5)
0-0Actual: 4
Highest: 1 - 5 Voters
Lowest: 9 - 3 Voters
1410
Points
4Virginia (1)
0-0Actual: 6
Highest: 1 - Bob Sutton
Lowest: 12 - Kevin Lyttle
1347
Points
5Kentucky (10)
0-0Actual: 2
Highest: 1 - 10 Voters
Lowest: 8 - Cormac Gordon
1520
Points
6Oklahoma
0-0Actual: 8
Highest: 4 - Cormac Gordon
Lowest: 16 - Kevin McNamara
1088
Points
7Duke
0-0Actual: 5
Highest: 2 - Jay Drew
Lowest: 12 - Chuck McGill
1350
Points
8Villanova
0-0Actual: 11
Highest: 6 - Aaron Brenner
Lowest: 22 - 2 Voters
1013
Points
9Gonzaga
0-0Actual: 9
Highest: 4 - Chuck McGill
Lowest: 14 - 3 Voters
1047
Points
10Michigan State
0-0Actual: 13
Highest: 7 - Aaron Brenner
Lowest: 21 - Elton Alexander
838
Points
11Wichita State
0-0Actual: 10
Highest: 3 - Jon Wilner
Lowest: 17 - Randy Rosetta
1032
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12Iowa State
0-0Actual: 7
Highest: 3 - Cormac Gordon
Lowest: 20 - Graham Couch
1185
Points
13California
0-0Actual: 14
Highest: 9 - 2 Voters
Lowest: NR - Rick Bozich
757
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14UConn
0-0Actual: 20
Highest: 13 - Dave Borges
Lowest: NR - 15 Voters
307
Points
15Notre Dame
0-0Actual: 19
Highest: 12 - Aaron Brenner
Lowest: NR - 15 Voters
360
Points
16Utah
0-0Actual: 16
Highest: 11 - Jay Drew
Lowest: NR - 8 Voters
499
Points
17Indiana
0-0Actual: 15
Highest: 6 - Jeff Faraudo
Lowest: 22 - Adam Sparks
755
Points
18Vanderbilt
0-0Actual: 18
Highest: 13 - 3 Voters
Lowest: NR - 9 Voters
393
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19Butler
0-0Actual: 24
Highest: 13 - Scott Wolf
Lowest: NR - 19 Voters
223
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20Michigan
0-0Actual: 25
Highest: 14 - Soren Petro
Lowest: NR - 38 Voters
126
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21Arizona
0-0Actual: 12
Highest: 6 - 2 Voters
Lowest: 22 - Jon Rothstein
917
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22Rhode Island
0-0Actual: 37
Highest: 18 - Cormac Gordon
Lowest: NR - 62 Voters
17
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23Xavier
0-0Actual: 38
Highest: 22 - Aaron Brenner
Lowest: NR - 61 Voters
12
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24Miami (FL)
0-0Actual: 31
Highest: 16 - Jon Rothstein
Lowest: NR - 52 Voters
48
Points

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25Yale
0-0Actual: 49
Highest: 25 - John Feinstein
Lowest: NR - 64 Voters
1
Point
Ranked Teams Not on Ballot: 17-Wisconsin21-LSU22-Baylor23-Purdue