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Kansas’ Men Tops Preseason AP Division I Basketball Poll!

Bill Self‘s Kansas Jayhawks will start the 2009-2010 season ranked #1 in the AP Division I Top 25, followed by Michigan State, the 2009 NCAA tournament runner-up.  The preseason Top 25 includes:

1.  Kansas (Coached by Bill Self)
2.  Michigan State (Coached by Tom Izzo)
3.  Texas 
4.  Kentucky  (Coached by John Calipari)
5.  Villanova (Coached by Jay Wright)
6.  North Carolina (Coached by Roy Williams)
7.  Purdue (Coached by Matt Painter)
8.  West Virginia (Coached by Bob Huggins)
9.  Duke (Coached by Mike Krzyzewski)
10.  Tennessee (Coached by Bruce Pearl)
11.  Butler (Coached by Brad Stevens)
12.  Connecticut (Coached by Jim Calhoun)
13.  California (Coached by Mike Montgomery)
14.  Washington (Coached by Lorenzo Romar)
15.  Michigan
16.  Ohio State
17.  Oklahoma
18.  Mississippi State
19.  Louisville (Coached by Rick Pitino)
20.  Georgetown
21.  Dayton (Coached by Brian Gregory)
22.  Georgia Tech (Coached by Paul Hewitt)
23.  Illinois (Coached by Bruce Weber)
24.  Clemson (Coached by Oliver Purnell)
25.  Minnesota (Coached by Tubby Smith)