The USILA released the intitial coaches poll today and Syracuse earned top billiing with four first-place votes and 240 total points. There was more dissention in the coaches poll compared to the preseason media poll, with three teams besides the Orange -- North Carolina (four); Duke (four); and Maryland (one) -- earning first-place ballots. Here's the full poll:

2014 PRESEASON COACHES POLL RANK TEAM POINTS 1ST-PLACE VOTES 1. Syracuse 240 4 2. North Carolina 236 4 3. Duke 230 4 4. Denver 215 0 5. Notre Dame 200 0 6. Maryland 185 1 7. Virginia 165 0 8. Princeton 162 0 9. Penn State 154 0 10. Albany 145 0 11. Johns Hopkins 136 0 12. Loyola 114 0 13. Yale 99 0 14. Ohio State 95 0 15. Bucknell 70 0 16. Cornell 67 0 17. Lehigh 55 0 18. Pennsylvania 48 0 19. St. John's 27 0 20. Villanova 26 0

Also receiving votes: Harvard; Fairfield; Towson; Drexel; Massachusetts; Bryant; Hofstra; Air Force; Stony Brook; Army; Navy

The conference breakdown was as follows: ACC (six); Ivy League (four); Patriot League, Big East (three); CAA, ECAC, America East, and Independent (one). The ACC put all six of its members in the top seven of this poll; only the existence of Denver -- ranked fourth -- kept the ACC from sweeping the top of the tally.