The disdain for UConn is real!
Kansas ranked No. 1 in the rankings. Associated Press Preseason Men’s College Basketball Poll Top 25 It was announced Monday and received 30 of the 60 votes cast by the National Media Committee to start the season. They are ranked ahead of Alabama and back-to-back national champions UConn.
In fourth place is Houston, with Iowa State rounding out the top five in fifth place. Gonzaga University came in 6th place. (Related: ‘Everybody’s afraid’: Nuggets’ Michael Malone blames players for poor performance, slams NBA as ‘very naive’)
Rounding out the top 10 are Duke University (7th), Baylor University (8th), University of North Carolina (9th), and University of Arizona (10th).
The overall top 25 are:
- Kansas
- Alabama
- university university
- houston
- iowa
- gonzaga
- duke
- baylor
- north carolina
- arizona
- auburn
- tennessee
- Texas A&M
- Purdue
- clayton
- arkansas
- Indiana
- market
- texas
- cincinnati
- florida
- University of California Los Angeles
- kentucky
- Ole Miss
- rutgers
Poll alert: Kansas State leads Alabama and defending champion UConn in the preseason AP Top 25 Men’s Basketball Poll. The SEC leads with nine teams in the poll.
Full vote: https://t.co/ZJG5mgWrsa pic.twitter.com/aAABleXK3s
— AP Top 25 (@AP_Top25) October 14, 2024
Man, I don’t understand how people keep disrespecting UConn over and over again. I mean, damn, are we going to put them in the third position? After winning consecutive national championships?!
Additionally, the following is happening in Kansas:
This is the fifth time during Bill Self’s tenure that the University of Kansas has been ranked No. 1 in the preseason. Here are the results for those seasons:
2023-24: 4th seed, lost in the 2nd round
2018-19: 4th seed, lost in the 2nd round
2009-10: 1 seed, lost in the 2nd round
2004-05: 3rd seed, lost in the 1st roundIs this a curse? pic.twitter.com/3X87kGn7AB
— College Basketball Report (@CBKReport) October 14, 2024
I’m really sick of this vote!
