Kansas will enter the college basketball season next month as the No. 1 team in both the AP Top 25 and Coaches Polls. The former poll was released last week and the latter was released on Wednesday, with the Jayhawks earning 15 of a possible 31 first-place votes.

Dawn Staley and the South Carolina women's basketball team will head into this season's NCAA title defense with a No. 1 ranking in the AP Top 25

With one glance at the preseason AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll, this much is clear - the Big 12 is clearly more respected as a basketball conference.

Kansas has been the preseason No. 1 team in college basketball five times since Bill Self took over the program over two decades ago. After starting last season as the preseason top-ranked team, the Jayhawks failed to meet expectations and lost during the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year.

The preseason AP Top 25 poll was released on Monday. Here's where Big Ten men's teams came in the first rankings of the 2024-25 season:

Georgia Amoore’s preseason accolades continued to grow Thursday when the Southeastern Conference announced its coaches’ preseason selections for all-league honors and predicted its order of finish for the 2024-25 season.

The Kentucky Wildcats will start the women's college basketball season ranked in AP Top 25 and USA TODAY Preseason Coaches polls. See where UK is.

On Wednesday, the first USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll was released, and Kentucky basketball came in ranked 23rd. A day later, the women's Coaches Poll is out, and the Kentucky women's team is ranked as well at number 22.