TOWSON, Md. – For the first time in its 20-year history as a member of the Landmark Conference, the Drew University men's basketball team has been picked to finish first in the conference's preseason preseason poll. 

The Rangers received 72 points and five of the 10 first-place votes in the poll, which is voted on by the conference's head coaches.
 
Drew finished tied for the top spot in the poll with Catholic, which also picked up 72 points while garnering three first-place votes.
 
Finishing just one point behind Drew and Catholic was Scranton, which also received two first-place votes.
 
Rounding out the poll were Susquehanna (58), Juniata (45), Wilkes (42), Elizabethtown (33), Moravian (24), Goucher (17), and Lycoming (16).

Drew placed second in the Landmark Conference standings a year ago, when it finished 19-7 overall and 13-5 in conference play. The Rangers finished in the top-two in the Landmark standings and hosted a conference playoff game for the third year in a row and the seventh time in the last eight years.