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

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 men's college basketball preseason AP Top 25 poll for the 2024-25 season is out. Here's what to know about each team, from No. 1 Kansas to No. 25 Rutgers.

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:

Indiana basketball was ranked No. 18 in the preseason USA TODAY Sports coaches poll that was released on Wednesday. The team was ranked No. 17 in the preseason AP Poll released last week. The Hoosiers fell short of reaching the NCAA tournament last season for the first time during coach Mike Woodson's tenure with a 19-14 record (10-10 Big Ten),

A consequence of conference realignment is the distribution of NCAA tournament bids and seeds -- and bragging rights. How do the Big 12, SEC, ACC, Big East and Big Ten rank?