Kansas No. 4, Wichita State No. 10 in AP basketball poll
Kansas is No. 4 and Wichita State No. 10 in the Associated Press preseason poll released Monday.
The Jayhawks, 27-9 last season, received five first-place votes. No. 1 North Carolina received 35 first-place votes from the panel of 65 writers and broadcasters. No. 2 Kentucky and No. 3 Maryland follow.
Wichita State’s streak of 40 weeks in the poll is the fourth-longest active streak, behind Duke (156), Kansas (124) and Arizona (60). The Shockers were ranked No. 16 in the 2013-14 preseason poll and haven’t slipped below that spot the past two seasons.
The Shockers went 30-5 last season. They ended last season No. 14 in the AP poll, taken before post-season play.
It is WSU’s longest streak since it appeared in 20 Associated Press polls during the 1963-64 and 1964-65 seasons.
In the USA Today coaches poll, released in October, Kansas is No. 5 and WSU is No. 12.
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AP top 25 basketball
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ preseason 2015-16 college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, final 2014-15 records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last year’s final ranking:
Record | Pts | Prv | |
1. North Carolina (35) | 26-12 | 1,566 | 15 |
2. Kentucky (10) | 38-1 | 1,520 | 1 |
3. Maryland (14) | 28-7 | 1,487 | 12 |
4. Kansas (5) | 27-9 | 1,410 | 10 |
5. Duke | 35-4 | 1,350 | 4 |
6. Virginia (1) | 30-4 | 1,347 | 6 |
7. Iowa St. | 25-9 | 1,185 | 9 |
8. Oklahoma | 24-11 | 1,088 | 13 |
9. Gonzaga | 35-3 | 1,047 | 7 |
10. Wichita St. | 30-5 | 1,032 | 14 |
11. Villanova | 33-3 | 1,013 | 2 |
12. Arizona | 34-4 | 917 | 5 |
13. Michigan St. | 27-12 | 838 | 23 |
14. California | 18-15 | 757 | _ |
15. Indiana | 20-14 | 755 | _ |
16. Utah | 26-9 | 499 | 19 |
17. Wisconsin | 36-4 | 433 | 3 |
18. Vanderbilt | 21-14 | 393 | _ |
19. Notre Dame | 32-6 | 360 | 8 |
20. UConn | 20-15 | 307 | _ |
21. LSU | 22-11 | 268 | _ |
22. Baylor | 24-10 | 265 | 16 |
23. Purdue | 21-13 | 236 | _ |
24. Butler | 23-11 | 223 | 24 |
25. Michigan | 16-16 | 126 | _ |
Others receiving votes: Oregon 116, SMU 112, West Virginia 84, Texas A&M 72, Cincinnati 63, Miami 48, Louisville 46, Georgetown 23, NC State 19, Florida St. 18, Texas 18, Rhode Island 17, Dayton 12, Xavier 12, Providence 10, Iowa 6, BYU 5, Valparaiso 5, Boise St. 4, Old Dominion 3, Oklahoma St. 2, San Diego St. 2, UCLA 2, Cent. Michigan 1, Iona 1, UC Irvine 1, Yale 1.
This story was originally published November 2, 2015 at 12:54 PM with the headline "Kansas No. 4, Wichita State No. 10 in AP basketball poll."