Kansas is the preseason No. 1 group in the Associated Press Top 25 preseason males’s faculty basketball scores launched Monday, edging out a loaded box of blue bloods to say the highest spot for the fourth time in college historical past. The Jayhawks earned 46 of a imaginable 63 first-place votes to earn the respect for the second one time in 5 years and fourth time in the fashionable technology.
Five groups in general earned no less than one first-place vote from electorate in the preseason AP Top 25 with Duke, ranked No. 2 in the poll, completing with the second-most at the back of Kansas with 11. Purdue, ranked No. 3 in the poll, earned the third-most with 3. UConn had the fourth-most with two however got here in at No. 6 in the poll. Michigan State was once the one different group to garner first-place votes with one, even though it ranked two spots ahead of the reigning nationwide champion Huskies and got here in at No. 4. Marquette ranked 5th in the poll however was once the one group ranked in the highest six not to earn a first-place vote.
Kansas earned preseason No. 1 honors in the AP poll maximum not too long ago in 2018-19 earlier than occurring to complete No. 17 in the poll after a 26-10 season. It additionally earned preseason No. 1 in 2009-10 and in 2004-05, the place it completed the season ranked No. 1 and No. 12 in the poll, respectively.
After opening the 2022-23 season because the protecting nationwide champions, Kansas was once ranked preseason No. 5 ultimate yr and completed No. 4 in the overall AP poll of the season whilst occurring to win 28 video games. KU then reputedly upgraded its already-strong roster this offseason by means of returning 3 starters — Kevin McCullar Jr., Dajuan Harris and Ok.J. Adams — whilst including the most efficient switch out of the portal in Michigan large guy Hunter Dickinson, a three-time All-Big Ten performer.
The historical past of preseason No. 1 groups has in large part been stable for the reason that NCAA expanded its event layout in 1985, with six preseason No. 1 groups occurring to win the NCAA championship and 18 occurring to achieve no less than the Final Four, together with maximum not too long ago preseason No. 1 Gonzaga in 2020-21, which went on to complete runner-up in the NCAA championship. That has no longer at all times been the case of past due, even though, as preseason No. 1 North Carolina ultimate season made historical past because the first-ever preseason No. 1 to omit the NCAA Tournament in the growth technology.
Preseason AP Top 25
1. Kansas (46)
2. Duke (11)
3. Purdue (3)
4. Michigan State (1)
5. Marquette
6. UConn (2)
7. Houston
8. Creighton
9. Tennessee
10. FAU
11. Gonzaga
12. Arizona
13. Miami (FL)
14. Arkansas
15. Texas A&M
16. Kentucky
17. San Diego State
18. Texas
19. North Carolina
20. Baylor
21. USC
22. Villanova
23. Saint Mary’s
24. Alabama
25. Illinois
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 53, Colorado 49, UCLA 47, St. John’s 47, Maryland 34, Virginia 27, Auburn 27, TCU 24, Mississippi St. 20, Kansas St 13, Xavier 8, Memphis 7, Missouri 6, Boise St. 4, Indiana 3, Florida 2, Coll of Charleston 2, New Mexico 1, Drake 1.
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