Big Red Rankings

"Dwight" from NBC's The Office is quite the Cornell fan.

Several college basketball websites are publishing preseason rankings in the form of a daily or weekly countdown to No. 1.

Bleacher Report's George Barnette is counting down 65 Teams in 65 Days, as the nation's best teams headed into 2009-2010. Cornell is ranked No. 52 on the Bleacher Report.

CollegeHoopsNet.com (CHN) is counting down the Top 144 teams in Division I in 144 days. Last season, CHN ranked Cornell No. 89 . Cornell was the only Ivy to crack the ranking. Thus far, CHN has ranked some of the following teams, many of which come from major conferences.

#???: Cornell
#98 Providence
#100 Houston
#103 Texas Christian

#107 Nebraska
#109 Indiana
#110 Binghamton
#114: Rutgers
#115: Temple
#117: Southern Illinois Salukis
#119: NC State Wolf Pack
#120: USC Trojans
#123: Iowa Hawkeyes
#126: Charlotte 49ers
#129: Wyoming Cowboys
#130: Texas Tech Red Raiders
#131: Holy Cross Crusaders
#133: Vermont Catamounts (Cornell '09-'10 opponent)
#134: Rhode Island Rams
#139: South Florida Bulls
#141: Washington St. Cougars

MidMajorMadness.com (MMM) is counting down and ranking the nation's 344 Division I teams for the 2009-2010 season. Thus far, MMM has ranked teams Nos. 344 to 254. Potential Cornell opponents on the 2009-2010 schedule already ranked include:

330. Toledo
329. Dartmouth
308. Bryant
307. Brown
291. Columbia
283. Bucknell
262. Penn