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Preseason AP Top 25 Poll
Nov 09, 2020 05:02 PM #1

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll ↗

  1. Gonzaga

  2. Baylor

  3. Villanova

  4. Virginia

  5. Iowa

  6. Kansas

  7. Wisconsin

  8. Illinois

  9. Duke

  10. Kentucky

  11. Creighton

  12. Tennessee

  13. Michigan State

  14. Texas Tech

  15. West Virginia

  16. North Carolina

  17. Houston

  18. Arizona State

  19. Texas

  20. Oregon

  21. Florida State

  22. UCLA

  23. Ohio State

  24. Rutgers

  25. Michigan

Others receiving votes: LSU 146, Memphis 69, Florida 69, Alabama 50, Indiana 48, Louisville 41, Richmond 40, Stanford 14, Providence 9, Saint Louis 8, Auburn 8, San Diego State 6, UConn 6, BYU 4, Loyola Chicago 3, UNCG 2, Northern Iowa 1

Nov 09, 2020 05:17 PM #2

Baylor should have clearly been preseason #1.

However since we play Zags game 1 it becomes a feather in the cap for this team to knock them off

Nov 09, 2020 05:19 PM #3

I agree. They are only separated by 1 point in the poll, though. So basically a tie.

Nov 09, 2020 05:33 PM #4

Ha Iowa, what a joke. They'll be good, but what ever talent they have gets negated by the other Fran I dislike. They have almost a worse basketball resume than the state they share a border with misery. 1979 conference champ (their last) which is impressive actually as that was Magic's championship season at MSU. FF in 1980 and a couple in the 50's That's it.

Of course maybe this poll accidentally posted here was the wrestling poll. Then Iowa deserves to be highly ranked.

Nov 09, 2020 05:36 PM #5

@wissox

Ranking them #5 has more to do with Luke Garza then anything

Nov 09, 2020 05:36 PM #6

@KirkIsMyHinrich

I'm shocked it was even that close. Shame on the voters

Nov 09, 2020 05:54 PM #7

@wissox said in Preseason AP Top 25 Poll:

Ha Iowa, what a joke. They'll be good, but what ever talent they have gets negated by the other Fran I dislike. They have almost a worse basketball resume than the state they share a border with misery. 1979 conference champ (their last) which is impressive actually as that was Magic's championship season at MSU. FF in 1980 and a couple in the 50's That's it.

Of course maybe this poll accidentally posted here was the wrestling poll. Then Iowa deserves to be highly ranked.

NEVER have liked Iowa , don't ask me why , maybe the Coach just something about them rubs me wrong

Nov 09, 2020 08:19 PM #8

@BeddieKU23 @jayballer67 I'm not sure if you can tell, but I really, as a matter of policy, hate Iowa. Yes Garza's the headliner and they get some love because of him, but that team folded last year with basically all the same guys going this year. They got blasted by Depaul last year that should tell you something.

Nov 09, 2020 08:28 PM #9

Last season, Iowa was 5th in offensive efficiency and 97th in defensive efficiency. Their defense has to get better if they want to be an elite team this season.

Nov 09, 2020 11:56 PM #10

@KirkIsMyHinrich

Basically the Iowa St of the Big 12

Nov 10, 2020 02:09 AM #11

KU has 12 of 27 games against preseason top 20 teams and 4 of 9 non-conference games against preseason top 12 teams.

That's a pretty stacked schedule.

Nov 10, 2020 02:12 AM #12

Also just saw KU added Washburn as the final non-conference game on Dec. 3.

Nov 10, 2020 02:18 AM #13

Iowa returns most everyone from a team that finished a game out of 10th place in the BIG.

@Texas-Hawk-10 Wow, that's an amazing schedule we'll be facing.

Nov 10, 2020 09:37 PM #14

Bigtime looking forward to some Jayhawk basketball.

Nov 10, 2020 10:34 PM #15

@Marco said in Preseason AP Top 25 Poll:

Bigtime looking forward to some Jayhawk basketball.

Don't hold your breath for a complete season. The way the Governor was talking during her conference just now Basketball was brought up. They were talking assuming about High Schools but if the virus is bad enough which it is - -getting really insane all ICU beds now full in Wichita at both hospitals but anyways talking and saying we got lucky with outdoor sports but now we are dealing with indoors. - -Saying we might have to find a different way to shoot a 3 pointer.

All these States spiking really big I would be willing to bet were going to see Cancellations and or inneruptions and if it doesn't improve as there are Schools now talking about total remote/on line again we are going to end up losing our season to this crap - - AGAIN

Nov 18, 2020 03:04 PM #16

Tristan Clark of Baylor has retired from Basketball. Will be interesting to see who takes his place

Nov 20, 2020 03:57 AM #17

I don't even know much about the teams... but thinking what glares at me is Iowa and Texas.

Nov 30, 2020 09:22 PM #18

https://collegebasketball.ap.org/hometownsource/poll ↗

KU at #7 in the new AP Poll. Duke up 3 spots to #6 after winning a game (in which they were a 40-point favorite) by 10 points against one of the worst teams in college basketball. A joke.

Nov 30, 2020 11:46 PM #19

Good news is we got the record!

Nov 30, 2020 11:54 PM #20

@FarmerJayhawk said in Preseason AP Top 25 Poll:

Good news is we got the record!

222 straight weeks - - -228 in the USA today - -we gonna have that record for awhile too. Duke is the next one at 85 weeks, and we still going.

Another streak we took from UCLA. lol

Nov 30, 2020 11:59 PM #21

@KirkIsMyHinrich said in Preseason AP Top 25 Poll:

https://collegebasketball.ap.org/hometownsource/poll ↗

KU at #7 in the new AP Poll. Duke up 3 spots to #6 after winning a game (in which they were a 40-point favorite) by 10 points against one of the worst teams in college basketball. A joke.

Wins a win.. nobody looked to see Coppin St was ranked 300 something in kenpom. Surprised KU kept at 7, its not like we set the world on fire

Dec 01, 2020 04:34 AM #22

@BeddieKU23 Everyone sucks except Gonzaga.

Dec 01, 2020 10:40 AM #23

@BShark

Pretty much. The gap will close as the season goes but right now its a gigantic cliff between them and everyone else

Dec 01, 2020 04:11 PM #24

Funniest part of this weeks poll is seeing two teams ranked that haven't even played a GAME