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#Kansas is back where it started the season. The preseason No. 1, the #Jayhawks are again the top-ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 despite struggling to get past New Mexico State at home. Kansas received 57 first-place votes from a 65-person media panel in the poll released Monday, sliding into the top spot after previous No. 1 Gonzaga lost to Tennessee. AP Top 25 poll First-place votes in parentheses 1. Kansas (57) 2. Duke (4) 3. Tennessee (1) 4. Gonzaga (1) 5. Michigan (1) 6. Virginia (1) 7. Nevada 8. Auburn 9. Michigan State 10. Florida State 11. Texas Tech 12. North Carolina 13. Virginia Tech 14. Buffalo 15. Ohio State 16. Wisconsin 17. Villanova 18. Mississippi State 19. Kentucky 20. Arizona State 21. Marquette 22. Iowa 23. Furman 24. Nebraska t-25. Syracuse t-25. Indiana t-25. Kansas State Complete rankings No. 2 Duke moved up a spot and received four first-place votes. No. 3 Tennessee, No. 4 Gonzaga, No. 5 Michigan and No. 6 Michigan received the other first-place votes. No...

Blue-chip basketball recruit #BryceThompson, a 6-foot-4, the 180-pound junior combo guard from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Okla., has embraced a new NCAA rule that allows juniors to take official campus visits. Thompson, the No. 65-rated player in the recruiting Class of 2020 by Rivals.com, whose dad, Rod, played for Kansas coach Bill Self at Tulsa, has completed official visits to Colorado, Arkansas, and Texas A&M. He’s made unofficial visits to Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and also has Tulsa, TCU, and others on his list of schools. “It’s always good up there. You know Coach Self. What he does speaks for itself. I got to see Late Night in the Phog and all of the crazy fans, so it was good,” Bryce Thompson said in commenting to Rivals.com on his late September visit to KU. Thompson — he’s not yet set a date to visit KU officially — has been called “one of the most dangerous jump shooters in the Class of 2020,” by Eric Bossi of Rivals.com. He...