Photo: Getty Images
The Kansas Jayhawks will once again start the 2024-25 NCAA Men's College Basketball season as the top-ranked team after ranking No. 1 overall in the Associated Press preseason Top 25 Men's College Basketball Poll released on Monday (October 14).
The Jayhawks, who were the preseason No. 1 overall team last year, received 30 first-place votes from the AP panel. The Alabama Crimson Tide, who was defeated in the Final Four, making its longest run in program history, ranked No. 2 with 14 first-place votes.
The two-time defending national champion UConn Huskies ranked No. 3 overall with 11 first-place votes. The Huskies are trying to become the first team to win three consecutive titles since John Wooden's UCLA Bruins team, which won its sixth consecutive championship, as well as its ninth in a 12-year span, in 1973.
The full Associated Press preseason Top 25 Men's College Basketball Poll is included below:
- Kansas (Big 12)
- Alabama (SEC)
- UConn (Big East)
- Houston (Big 12)
- Iowa State (Big 12)
- Gonzaga (West Coast)
- Duke (ACC)
- Baylor (Big 12)
- North Carolina (ACC)
- Arizona (Big 12)
- Auburn (SEC)
- Tennessee (SEC)
- Texas A&M (SEC)
- Purdue (Big Ten)
- Creighton (Big East)
- Arkansas (SEC)
- Indiana (Big Ten)
- Marquette (Big East)
- Texas (SEC)
- Cincinnati (Big 12)
- Florida (SEC)
- UCLA (Big Ten)
- Kentucky (SEC)
- Ole Miss (SEC)
- Rutgers (Big Ten)