BATON ROUGE – The LSU men’s basketball team is ranked No. 21 in the preseason Associated Press media poll released on Monday. It is the first time LSU has been ranked in the AP poll since the final poll of the 2009 season.
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AP Preseason Top 25
Rank, Team (First-Place Votes), Points
1, North Carolina (35), 1,566
2, Kentucky (10), 1,520
3, Maryland (14), 1,487
4, Kansas (5), 1,410
5, Duke, 1,350
6, Virginia (1), 1,347
7, Iowa State, 1,185
8, Oklahoma, 1,088
9, Gonzaga, 1,047
10, Wichita State, 1,032
11, Villanova, 1,013
12, Arizona, 917
13, Michigan State, 838
14, California, 757
15, Indiana, 755
16, Utah, 499
17, Wisconsin, 433
18, Vanderbilt, 393
19, Notre Dame, 360
20, Connecticut, 307
21, LSU, 268
22, Baylor, 265
23, Purdue, 236
24, Butler, 223
25, Michigan, 126