The preseason college basketball AP poll is out, and the Wisconsin basketball team will open the season as the #17 team in the country.
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The Badgers, who lost five players from last year’s team — three to the NBA — have the difficult task of replacing the college basketball player of the year in Frank Kaminsky and one of the top Big Ten players from a season ago, Sam Dekker.