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1988 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 Temple
2 < 3 Arizona Pac-10
3 < 2 Purdue Big Ten
4 < 4 Oklahoma Big 8
5 < 8 Duke ACC
6 < 6 Kentucky SEC
7 < 9 North Carolina ACC
8 < 5 Pittsburgh
9 < 13 Syracuse Big East
10 < 10 Michigan Big Ten
11 < 12 Bradley
12 < 7 UNLV
13 < 14 Wyoming
14 < 11 NC State ACC
15 < 16 Loyola Marymount
16 < 19 Illinois Big Ten
17 < 15 Iowa Big Ten
18 < 20 Xavier
19 < 17 BYU
20 < NR Kansas State Big 8

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.