To start the 2016-2017 season, the West Virginia University men’s basketball team has been ranked No. 20 in the Preseason AP Top 25 Poll. This adds to the No. 18 ranking the Mountaineers received from the USA Today Coaches Poll.
Other Big 12 schools in the poll were No. 3 Kansas, No. 21 Texas and No. 24 Iowa State.
Outside of the conference, WVU has only one opponent in the preseason top 25. Virginia, who the Mountaineers play on December 3 in Charlottesville, Virginia, is ranked eighth.
The poll is topped by Duke and Kentucky, with defending champions Villanova at No.