K-State, under third-year head coach Jerome Tang, has been picked to finish 8th in the 2024-25 Big 12 preseason coaches poll.
From the Big 12 media release, Kansas was selected as the favorite in the Big 12 men’s basketball preseason poll, marking the 20th time in 28 seasons the Jayhawks have sat atop the preseason poll.
The Jayhawks enter the season as the preseason favorite for the second consecutive year and were closely followed by Houston, who has ranked second in the preseason poll in both of its seasons in the Big 12. Iowa State, Baylor and Arizona rounded out the top five.
All awards were voted on by the league’s 16 head coaches, who could not vote for their own team or players.
Preseason Big 12 Poll
1 Kansas (9 first-place votes) – 215 points
2 Houston (5) – 211
3 Iowa State (1) – 194
4 Baylor – 185
5 Arizona (1) – 179
6 Cincinnati – 140
7 Texas Tech – 135
8 Kansas State – 133
9 BYU – 116
10 TCU – 90
11 UCF – 83
12 Arizona State – 64
13 West Virginia – 62
14 Oklahoma State – 46
15 Colorado – 37
16 Utah – 30
