Kansas took the top spot in the preseason poll, while the Big 12 and SEC were given their due respect as the deepest conferences.
Monday. For the second straight year, the Kansas Jayhawks will enter the season as preseason No. 1, earning 30 out of 60 votes for the top spot to edge out the Alabama Crimson Tide and two-time defending champion UConn Huskies. Other highlights from the poll included Cooper Flagg and the Duke Blue Devils picked at No. 7 and John Calipari’s Arkansas Razorbacks landing at No. 16.It was a tad surprising to not see deference given to the back-to-back national champions for the top spot.
Over half of the 16-team league seeing its name in the preseason top 25 is yet another marker of the league’s growth on the hardwood. The number is especially remarkable considering we’re less than a decade removed from the end of a stretch during which the SEC got just three teams into the NCAA tournament in three out of four years., with preseason KenPom rankings featuring all 18 Big Ten teams in the top 75 nationally.
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