College basketball rankings: Arizona Wildcats 12th in AP Preseason Top 25

Pretty consistent with everything else.

The AP Preseason Poll is here, and the Arizona Wildcats fall just about where they've fallen in every other preseason poll.

Arizona is 12th, which happens to be the highest ranking of any Pac-12 team.

Here's a look at the full poll:

2015-16 AP Preseason Poll

RANK	TEAM (FIRST)	POINTS
1	North Carolina Tar Heels (35)	1566
2	Kentucky Wildcats (10)	1520
3	Maryland Terrapins (14)	1487
4	Kansas Jayhawks (5)	1410
5	Duke Blue Devils	1350
6	Virginia Cavaliers (1)	1347
7	Iowa State Cyclones	1185
8	Oklahoma Sooners	1088
9	Gonzaga Bulldogs	1047
10	Wichita State Shockers	1032
11	Villanova Wildcats	1013
12	Arizona Wildcats	917
13	Michigan State Spartans	838
14	California Golden Bears	757
15	Indiana Hoosiers	755
16	Utah Utes	499
17	Wisconsin Badgers	433
18	Vanderbilt Commodores	393
19	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	360
20	Connecticut Huskies	307
21	LSU Tigers	268
22	Baylor Bears	265
23	Purdue Boilermakers	236
24	Butler Bulldogs	223
25	Michigan Wolverines	126
Others Receiving Votes: Oregon (0-0) 116; SMU (0-0) 112; West Virginia (0-0) 84; Texas A&M (0-0) 72; Cincinnati (0-0) 63; Miami (Fla.) (0-0) 48; Louisville (0-0) 46; Georgetown (0-0) 23; NC State (0-0) 19; Florida State (0-0) 18; Texas (0-0) 18; Rhode Island (0-0) 17; Dayton (0-0) 12; Xavier (0-0) 12; Providence (0-0) 10; Iowa (0-0) 6; Brigham Young (0-0) 5; Valparaiso (0-0) 5; Boise State (0-0) 4; Old Dominion (0-0) 3; Oklahoma State (0-0) 2; UCLA (0-0) 2; San Diego State (0-0) 2; Central Michigan (0-0) 1; UC Irvine (0-0) 1; Iona (0-0) 1; Yale (0-0) 1

Arizona has the potential of facing four of the teams that are within four spots of them (Gonzaga, Cal,Utah, and Michigan State).

It feels strange to me to see some of the teams ahead of Arizona. You have schools like Maryland, Virginia, Iowa State and Oklahoma with extremely high expectations this year, with a team like the Wildcats kind of lying in the weeds at No. 12.

The Wildcats have an exhibition game on Sunday night against Chico State. The regular season starts Friday, November 13th vs. Pacific.

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