As we head into the season, there’s no clear No. 1 team. Kentucky and North Carolina — two of college basketball’s blue-blood programs — tied for the top spot in USA Today’s preseason Coaches poll.

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Though the two received the same total number of points, UNC got 12 first-place votes to Kentucky’s 11. Maryland, Duke and Kansas round out the top five (in order). 

The rest of the poll:

  1. Virginia

  2. Iowa State

  3. Oklahoma

  4. Villanova

  5. Arizona

  6. Gonzaga

  7. Wichita State

  8. Michigan State

  9. California

  10. Indiana

  11. Utah

  12. Wisconsin

  13. Notre Dame

  14. LSU

  15. Vanderbilt

  16. Baylor

  17. Butler

  18. West Virginia

  19. Purdue

  20. Connecticut