Yahoo Sports AM: The AP poll, four months later…

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🏀 Top 10 shakeup: Preseason vs. now

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On October 14, the Associated Press released its preseason men’s college basketball poll. Four months later, half the top 10 teams in that initial poll aren’t even ranked. This is not normal.

Crashing out:

Kansas: For the second straight year, the Jayhawks were the preseason No. 1 team. And for the second straight year, they’ve failed to live up to that hype. This year is worse, with KU falling out of the rankings for just the second time since 2009.

UConn: The two-time defending champs went from preseason No. 3 to “is this team even good?” rather quickly. They’ve already lost more games (9) than all of last season (3) and the season before (8), and their three-peat odds are currently 50-to-1.

Gonzaga: The Zags were once No. 6…

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