Here is how Journal-World sports editor Tom Keegan voted in the AP preseason college basketball poll, released Oct. 29, 2009.
- Kansas
- Michigan State
- Purdue
- North Carolina
- Kentucky
- Texas
- Villanova
- Duke
- West Virginia
- Tennessee
- Butler
- Michigan
- Georgetown
- California
- Louisville
- Washington
- Mississippi State
- Maryland
- Dayton
- Kansas State
- Oklahoma
- Georgia Tech
- Clemson
- UConn
- Illinois