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1. Takeaways from Big 12 Preseason poll

The Big 12 Preseason coaches poll dropped Thursday, and it seems coaches agree with other preseason prognostications: Houston is the team to beat.

The Cougars snagged 14 of 16 first-place votes and could be primed to win their third-consecutive regular-season title. The team they supplanted as the league’s top team — Kansas — is sixth. That’s low for a Bill Self squad, even if the Jayhawks do have an all-league guard in freshman Darryn Peterson.

Peterson and BYU forward A.J. Dybantsa are the only freshmen on the preseason all-league list, and both were unanimous selections. Houston’s Milos Uzan and Texas Tech’s J.T. Toppin were the other unanimous selections. Toppin also was named preseason POY.

Three teams had multiple selections for all-league in Houston (Uzan and Joseph Tugler), BYU (Dybantsa and Richie Saunders) and Tech (Toppin and Christian Anderson). Iowa State guard Tamin Lipsey and Kansas State guard P.J. Haggerty were the other all-league selections, giving just six schools 10 players spots.

That seems like a surprise for Arizona.

The Wildcats were picked to finish 4th, which speaks to their returning core. So what derailed any all-league picks? That there’s no standout player? That the freshmen are good (three in the top 30) but not at the Peterson-Dybantsa level? Or is it just that preseason picks don’t matter.

And don’t overlook the bottom half of the Big 12, which usually has a projected bottom-dweller finish in the top half. Last season, it was West Virginia. This season it could be Oklahoma State, which just won a road exhibition game against Auburn in OT despite missing multiple rotation players.

2. Labaron Philon, Cade Tyson shine in exhibitions

These are just exhibition scores and may not mean anything. But …

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