The Kansas State Wildcats have a football team sporting a 4-0 record and now their basketball team is getting early recognition in advance of the 2010-2011 Big 12 Conference basketball season.
The Big 12 has released the preseason polls and K-State comes in at numero uno. This is the first time KSU has been ranked preseason No. 1 in the Big 12. They got 10 of the 12 first place votes.
The Wildcats are led by All-Big 12 First Team guard Jacob Pullen, who topped his squad in scoring with 19.3 points per game a year ago. He has scored in double figures in 37 consecutive outings, the second-longest streak in school history. K-State has nine lettermen returning from a team that advanced to an NCAA regional final for the first time since 1988.
Nine lettermen is quite a bit and that's the biggest reason they're this high. That, and their incredible run last year.
Here's the full set of Big 12 preseason rankings:
| Team (First-place Votes) | Points | |
| 1. | Kansas State (10) | 119 |
| 2. | Kansas (2) | 109 |
| 3. | Texas | 99 |
| 4. | Baylor | 96 |
| 5. | Missouri | 82 |
| 6. | Texas A&M | 69 |
| 7. | Texas Tech | 52 |
| 8. | Oklahoma State | 51 |
| 9. | Colorado | 46 |
| 10. | Nebraska | 31 |
| 11. | Oklahoma | 27 |
| 12. | Iowa State | 11 |