Kentucky is No. 1, Utah 10th in hoop poll
The summertime favorites for college basketball's preseason No. 1 ranking were Kentucky and Kansas. The poll results couldn't have been much closer.
Kentucky was voted No. 1 in the preseason poll for the first time Monday, edging the Jayhawks by just two points in the national media balloting.
Kentucky, which reached the round of eight in last year's NCAA tournament and return three starters, received 34 first-place votes and 1,550 points. Kansas, which has four starters back from the team that lost in the regional semifinals last season, was No. 1 on 24 ballots.
The Wildcats were the second straight Southeastern Conference team to be selected the preseason No. 1. Arkansas was tabbed there as defending champions and reached the title game last April.
Utah, the lone WAC team in the Top 25, is ranked 10th.
The Top 25 was again dominated by the big conferences, with the Big East having three of the top six teams.
Kentucky and Kansas were followed by the first of the Big East teams, Villanova, defending national champion UCLA of the Pac-10, and Big East schools Georgetown and Connecticut.
Villanova, which had 1,369 points, and UCLA were the only other schools to receive first-place votes with two and four, respectively,
The Top Ten was completed by Massachusetts, Iowa, Mississippi State and the Utes.
The next 10 spots went to Wake Forest, Louisville, Memphis, Missouri, Maryland, Arkansas, Michigan, Stanford, Virginia and North Carolina.
The last of the preseason ranked teams were Cincinnati, Virginia Tech, Indiana, Purdue and California.
Weber on KLZX-FM
Weber State is changing radio stations.
Beginning with Saturday's football game at Idaho State and continuing throughout the basketball season, the Wildcats can be heard on KLZX-FM. (That's 106.9 FM in Ogden, 92.1 FM in Salt Lake and 104.9 FM in Provo.)
The switch from KSOS-AM will make it much easier for most Weber fans to tune in the games on the radio with KLZX's much stronger signals.
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