Kansas University’s men’s basketball team, which failed to crack the ESPN/USA Today preseason top 25 coaches poll last week, has not been ignored in all other polls in magazines and on Web sites.

The young Jayhawks, who lost four starters off last year’s 23-7 team, have been ranked as high as No. 19 in CBS Sportsline Magazine and 24 by Foxsports.com.

As far as some individual analysts :

Dick Vitale of ESPN taps the Jayhawks No. 24 in his preseason poll. Also from ESPN, Andy Katz has KU ranked 21st, Rece Davis and Jay Bilas have the Jayhawks 23rd and Fran Fraschilla has them 25th.

Gregg Doyel of the cbssportsline.com does not deem the Jayhawks top-25 worthy. He ranks Texas No. 2, Oklahoma 3, Texas Tech 9 and Oklahoma State 16.

The Jayhawks, who reacted with a yawn when ranked No. 1 last preseason, are equally unfazed at lower expectations this year.

“I don’t know if we are looking to ratings right now. They don’t matter until the last game of the year,” senior Christian Moody said.

He can understand why analysts might ignore KU this preseason.

“We’re a bunch of young guys and guys who haven’t proved anything. Looking at what we lost last year, nobody knows what to expect out of the new guys,” Moody said.

“I think it does feel different from the last three years starting off the season. We are a team of guys nobody really knows about yet. Being here at Kansas, I’ve never experienced that. It’s definitely a different feeling, but exciting. Hopefully we’ll be able to feed off that too.”

¢ Wilt No. 4: Ex-Jayhawk Wilt Chamberlain has placed fourth in voting for college basketball’s greatest players of all time in nationwide fan voting conducted by cbssportsline.com.

Larry Bird placed first with 45,556 votes, followed by Michael Jordan (40,702) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,712). Danny Manning placed 20th with 14,163 votes.

¢ ‘Zona healthy now: Arizona, which opens the regular-season against KU at the Maui Invitational – the Jayhawks have a tune-up game against Idaho State on Nov. 18 – has received some good news on the injury front.

Senior guard Chris Rodgers has returned to practice at full strength. He suffered a knee sprain four weeks ago.

“He certainly will be a big factor because he’s our best defender,” coach Lute Olson told the Tucson Citizen.

Arizona senior forward Hassan Adams missed two practices last week because of a shower mishap. Freshman forward Fendi Onobun has been out with a strained leg. Wing Jawann McClellan is ineligible academically until mid-December.