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March 5, 1956 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 San Francisco (73) 24-0 1162
2 < 5 NC State (5) ACC 24-3 776
3 < 3 Dayton (1) 23-3 743
4 < 4 Alabama (24) SEC 20-3 720
5 < 10 Iowa (7) Big Ten 16-5 717
6 < 6 Louisville (6) 23-3 553
7 < 2 Illinois Big Ten 18-3 427
8 < 9 SMU (2) Southwest 22-2 319
9 < 12 Kentucky (2) SEC 19-5 228
10 < 13 UCLA 19-5 191
11 < 7 Vanderbilt SEC 19-4 168
12 < 15 Holy Cross (3) 21-4 133
13 < 14 Temple 21-3 127
14 < NR West Virginia (1) 21-8 123
15 < 8 North Carolina ACC 18-5 105
16 < 16 Oklahoma City (3) 18-6 103
17 < 18 Houston 19-5 71
18 < 20 Wake Forest ACC 19-9 51
19 < 11 Duke ACC 19-7 49
20 < NR Utah (1) 21-5 43

Notes

  • First-place votes, W-L records, and total points are not available prior to 2001-02. If you have some of this data from a verifiable source, please contact me.
  • Regular-season polls from 1949-60 had 20 teams, from 1961-68 had 10 teams (except in December 1960 and the 1964-65 preseason polls), and 1990-present had 25 teams.
  • Preseason polls started in the 1961-62 season, and there were post-tournament polls in 1953, 1954, 1974, and 1975.
  • All poll dates fall on Mondays with a few exceptions. See explanation here.