College basketball rankings: Arizona Wildcats 10th in preseason coaches poll

Kind of a surprise with how high they are

Based on several rankings that have been coming out over the past week or so, the Arizona Wildcats had been a consensus top-15 team nationally.

But in the first edition of the coaches poll, Arizona is a top-10 team, checking in right at 10th.

Here's the full poll, where Kentucky and UNC share the top spot:

	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS
1	Kentucky (11)	38-1	749
1	North Carolina (12)	26-12	749
3	Maryland (5)	28-7	723
4	Duke (3)	35-4	686
5	Kansas (1)	27-9	675
6	Virginia	30-4	667
7	Iowa St.	25-9	541
8	Oklahoma	24-11	520
9	Villanova	33-3	498
10	Arizona	34-4	477
11	Gonzaga	35-3	468
12	Wichita St.	30-5	461
13	Michigan St	27-12	386
14	California	18-15	350
15	Indiana	20-14	312
16	Utah	26-9	250
17	Wisconsin	36-4	181
18	Notre Dame	32-6	172
19	Louisiana State	22-11	163
20	Vanderbilt	21-14	153
21	Baylor	24-10	145
22	Butler	23-11	132
23	West Virginia	25-10	125
24	Purdue	21-13	110
24	Connecticut	20-15	110

This comes on the same day that the Pac-12 media voted the Wildcats to repeat at Pac-12 Champions, despite a lot of questions surrounding this team, as well as the perceived rise of many teams around the conference, most notably Cal.

Arizona has plenty of opponents ranked just behind them in the preseason coaches poll. The Wildcats are guaranteed to play Gonzaga, Cal and Utah, and have a good chance at getting Michigan State. That's four of the six teams directly behind the Wildcats in the poll.

We'll get our first look at some of the new players on Saturday at the Red-Blue scrimmage. That game will be broadcast on Pac-12 Networks at 9:30 PM PT Saturday night.

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