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Boiler up! Purdue tops preseason AP Top 25 for first time, ahead of Houston, reigning champ Florida

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61% : Kansas had been ranked outside the top 10 only once since that year (No. 13 in 2011-12) while starting at No. 1 in 2019-20 as well as each of the last two seasons in that stretch.
59% : Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press men's college basketball poll for the first time Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press
59% : Pearl's debut Auburn opens at No. 20 as it enters its first season since the unexpected retirement of coach Bruce Pearl following last year's Final Four run.
57% : That put Matt Painter's squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year's NCAA title game, with runner-up Houston at No. 2 and reigning champion Florida at No. 3. "We are obviously excited to get the season going and being ranked No. 1 in the preseason is a great indicator of what we feel this team can accomplish," Painter said.
57% : St. John's was fifth, with Rick Pitino's Red Storm surpassing the program's previous best ranking in a preseason AP poll (No. 7 in 1984-85).
57% : Quick transitions It hasn't taken long for Pat Kelsey to get Louisville back among the national elite, with the Cardinals checking in at No. 11 after a 27-win season to start his tenure.
56% : "But the goal is to be No. 1 at the end of the year.
54% : UConn was next at No. 4 and earned the remaining two first-place votes.
54% : Duke was next at No. 6, followed by Michigan, BYU -- which landed the nation's No. 1 recruit in A.J. Dybantsa -- Kentucky and Texas Tech to round out the top 10.
53% : " Purdue started a year ranked as high as No. 2 once before, in 1987-88 under Gene Keady.
48% : Jayhawks lower Kansas checked in at No. 19, the lowest preseason rank for Bill Self's Jayhawks since starting at No. 24 in the 2008-09 season as the reigning national champion.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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