LAWRENCE, Kan. – For the Eleventh-consecutive yr, Kansas males’s basketball enters the 2022-23 season ranked seventh or increased as KU is No. 5, tied with fellow Large 12-member Baylor, within the 2022-23 preseason Related Press ballot launched Monday.

That is additionally the thirteenth time within the final 14 seasons that the Jayhawks have entered the season No. 7 or increased by the AP, together with 10 occasions within the prime 5 and 5 within the prime three. KU was No. 1 in 2009-10, No. 3 in 2016-17, No. 1 in 2018-19, No. 3 in 2019-20 and No. 3 in 2021-22.

Kansas’ trails top-ranked North Carolina, No. 2 Gonzaga, No. 3 Houston and No. 4 Kentucky within the 2022-23 preseason ballot.

Final season, Kansas entered the preseason ranked No. 3 nationally within the Related Press ballot and completed the yr at No. 3. The ultimate AP ballot of the season is launched previous to the NCAA Event, which Kansas received in 2022. The Jayhawks had been ranked within the AP prime 10 in each ballot in the course of the 2021-22 season.

Below Twentieth-year and Corridor of Fame head coach Invoice Self, that is the seventeenth time that Kansas enters the season ranked seventh or increased within the Related Press preseason ballot. Traditionally, the No. 3 rating marks the twenty fifth time because the 1992-93 season that Kansas will enter the season seventh or increased.

Kansas might presumably play 13 video games in opposition to groups ranked within the preseason Related Press High 25. KU will twice play in opposition to No. 5 Baylor, No. 12 Texas, No. 14 TCU and No. 25 Texas Tech in Large 12 contests and also will face No. 4 Kentucky, No. 7 Duke and No. 13 Indiana. KU might additionally play No. 11 Tennessee and No. 24 Dayton within the Battle 4 Atlantis, Nov. 23-25, at Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Kansas returns two starters – Jalen Wilson and Dajuan Harris Jr. – and 7 letterwinners from final season’s 34-6 season, wherein it received its sixth nationwide title and fourth within the NCAA historical past. Wilson was named a unanimous Preseason All-Large 12 choice, whereas redshirt-senior Kevin McCullar, a switch from Texas Tech, was an honorable point out honoree by the convention.

Final season, KU tied Baylor for first place within the Large 12 common season with a 14-4 report. It was KU’s NCAA-record 63rd convention regular-season title and Twentieth within the 26-year historical past of the Large 12. The Jayhawks then received the Large 12 Event, superior to its NCAA-record Thirty second-consecutive NCAA Event, a streak that began in 1990, and its sixteenth Remaining 4. The Jayhawks received their final 11 video games of the season en path to the NCAA title.

2022-23 Related Press Preseason Ballot (Oct. 17, 2022)
Rank. Faculty (first place votes) – factors
1-North Carolina (47) – 1532
2-Gonzaga (12) – 1479
3-Houston (1) – 1404
4-Kentucky (2) – 1364
T5-KANSAS – 1200
T5-Baylor – 1200
7-Duke – 1168
8-UCLA – 1093
9-Creighton – 1060
10-Arkansas – 1026
11-Tennessee – 880
12-Texas – 844
13-Indiana – 745
14-TCU – 735
15-Auburn – 623
16-Villanova – 578
17-Arizona – 543
18-Virginia – 462
19-San Diego State – 394
20-Alabama – 281
21-Oregon – 260
22-Michigan – 229
23-Illinois – 215
24-Dayton – 170
25-Texas Tech – 122

Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 112, UConn 101, Miami 66, Purdue 56, Saint Louis 36, Michigan State 35, Florida State 32, Xavier 29, Wyoming 25, Ohio State 23, Iowa 13, Rutgers 4, Florida 3, USC 3, Toledo 1, Virginia Tech 1, Memphis 1, Notre Dame 1, UAB 1