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Tulsa men in top 12 pre-season soccer rankings
TU returns 18 letterwinners, including seven starters, from last year's team that put together the best season in school history. The Golden Hurricane won both the Conference USA regular season and tournament championships for the second straight year, advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in school history and earned a program-best No. 5 national ranking. Tulsa also set a new school-best 16-game unbeaten streak, a 16-game road win streak and a single-season best 10 shutouts.
Also ranked in this preseason poll is four teams TU will take on this season, including #6 Akron, #9 Northwestern, #24 Saint Louis and #27 Saint Louis.
College Soccer News 2009 Preseason Top-30 Rankings
1. St. John's
2. Creighton
3. Wake Forest
4. North Carolina
5. Maryland
6. Akron
7. Indiana
8. California
9. Northwestern
10. Dartmouth
11. UIC
12. Tulsa
13. South Florida
14. UC Irvine
15. Loyola (MD)
16. Notre Dame
17. UCLA
18. Dayton
19. UC Santa Barbar
20. Connecticut
21. Drake
22. Virginia
23. Boston University
24. Saint Louis
25. Michigan State
26. Cal Poly
27. SMU
28. Louisville
29. George Mason
30. San Francisco
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