Overview

• Kansas received nine out of 15 first-place votes, securing the top spot in the Big 12 preseason poll.
• Hunter Dickinson of Kansas was unanimously selected as the preseason player of the year, following his impressive performance last season.
• Houston, last season's regular-season champion, was voted second with five first-place votes.
• Arizona, a newcomer to the league, earned a first-place vote and was ranked fifth in the poll.
• Baylor's Jeremy Roach and Kansas State's Coleman Hawkins were named co-newcomers of the year, while VJ Edgecombe of Baylor was selected as the freshman of the year.