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Wisconsin basketball receives votes in Associated Press preseason rankings

Wisconsin basketball receives votes in Associated Press preseason rankings

Wisconsin’s men’s basketball program received five votes in the Associated Press’ preseason men’s college basketball rankings on Monday.

Just a few weeks after being awarded the No. 12 spot in the Big Ten men’s basketball preseason poll, the Badgers landed well outside the AP’s top 25 hierarchy ahead of the 2024-25 campaign.

The outlet placed Kansas in the No. 1 spot, Alabama at No. 2, defending national champion UConn at No. 3, Houston at No. 4 and Iowa State at No. 5.

Big Ten rivals Purdue (No. 14), Indiana (No. 17) and Rutgers (No. 25) landed within the AP’s initial list. Illinois received 92 votes, Michigan State and Ohio earned 29, Michigan pocketed 19, Oregon notched 12 and Maryland secured one. Wisconsin’s five votes were the 20th-most among unranked teams in this year’s installation of the preseason rankings.

Here is a full look at the AP’s preseason top 25.

Despite amassing a 22-14 mark a season ago and earning a No. 5 seed in the 2024 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, this marks the third consecutive season Wisconsin falls outside the preseason top 25.

This year’s team will welcome a cohort of new faces. True freshman point guard Daniel Freitag will immediately join the rotation alongside transfers John Tonje, Xavier Amos and Camren Hunter. Former point guard Chucky Hepburn (transfer), scoring machine AJ Storr (transfer) and mainstay Tyler Wahl (graduation) will not return to the Kohl Center this season.

Wisconsin will begin its 2024 season against Holy Cross on Nov. 4 at the Kohl Center.

AP releases plan for 2020 college football Top 25 poll

The Associated Press has released its plan for the 2020 college football Top 25 poll, will include Big Ten and Pac-12 in preseason poll.

The Associated Press’ annual preseason college football Top 25 poll has typically been the indicator that the college football season is near.  Following the news that the Big Ten and Pac-12 will not be playing football this fall, many have wondered what the first AP Top 25 will look like.  The AP addressed these questions on Friday.

The AP preseason poll is scheduled to be released on August  24 and the AP asked its voters to include all teams, including Big Ten and Pac-12. This is a nice gesture to the players who have had their season taken away from them but will only be that way for the preseason.

“The preseason poll has always been a speculative ranking of teams based on last year’s results and knowledge about the new makeup of teams,” Michael Giarrusso, AP global sports editor, told Ralph D. Russo. “This year, we think it is crucial to give all the teams and all their fans a snapshot look at what the Top 25 would have been to open the season.”

The AP preseason and postseason All-American teams will be decided on similarly. The AP will also rank teams in the spring, should the Big Ten and Pac-12 play then.

“The AP and our voters have no idea what a spring football season will look like. But we are open to adapting and finding a way for our Top 25 voters to be involved in ranking teams if real games are played in the spring of 2021,” Giarrusso said.

The AP is keeping the Top 25 and planning on being “nimble and flexible” for the 2020 season.