College basketball rankings: Kansas earns No. 1 spot in preseason Coaches Poll with Purdue over Duke at No. 2

After a surprising go out in the 2023 NCAA Tournament, Purdue will get started the season ranked No. 2 in the Coaches Poll. Released Monday, the ballot options Kansas because the No. 1 staff with a 23-5 edge over the Boilermakers in first-place votes. No. 3 Duke and No. 5 Uconn additionally won first-place votes from the 32 collaborating Division l head coaches.

Purdue returns all 5 starters, together with reigning nationwide participant of the yr Zach Edey from a staff that completed 29-6 total and 15-5 in Big Ten play final season. Edey is joined by means of Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer, Ethan Morton and Mason Gillis in the beginning lineup. Purdue by means of distinctive feature of a loss to Fairleigh Dickinson, turned into the second one No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament historical past to lose in the outlet spherical of the NCAA Tournament to a No. 16 seed.

The Jayhawks, who additionally ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 Poll launched at the similar day, returns 3 starters in Dajuan Harris Jr., Kevin McCullar Jr. and KJ Adams Jr. Kansas added the top-ranked switch in former Michigan heart Hunter Dickinson and he will have to be a contender to dethrone Edey for nationwide participant of the yr. The Jayhawks season ended early with a loss to Arkansas in the second one spherical as trainer Bill Self overlooked all the NCAA Tournament because of a middle factor. 

Reigning nationwide champion UConn, begins the season ranked No. 5 at the back of Kansas, Purdue, Duke and Michigan State. The Huskies play Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas on Dec. 5.

Preseason Coaches Poll

1. Kansas (23)
2. Purdue (5)
3. Duke (3)
4. Michigan State
5. UConn (1)
6. Houston
7. Marquette
8. Creighton
9. FAU
10. Tennessee
11. Arizona
12. Gonzaga
13. Miami (FL)
14. Arkansas
15. San Diego State
16. Kentucky
17. Baylor
18. Texas
19. Texas A&M
20. Villanova
21. North Carolina
22. USC
23. Saint Mary’s
24. Alabama
25. UCLA 

Others receiving votes: Illinois 45; Wisconsin 43; Maryland 29; TCU 26; Colorado 21; Xavier 17; Ohio State 16; Virginia 13; St. John’s 13; Kansas State 8; Indiana 7; Washington 5; Florida 5; Auburn 5; Missouri 4; Oregon 3; Memphis 3; Mississippi State 2; Iowa State 2; Yale 1; Boise State 1;