Men's Basketball

Home Last Poll Teams

1997 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 Kansas Big 12
2 < 3 Utah
3 < 2 Minnesota Big Ten
4 < 5 North Carolina ACC
5 < 6 Kentucky SEC
6 < 4 South Carolina SEC
7 < 9 UCLA Pac-10
8 < 7 Duke ACC
9 < 8 Wake Forest ACC
10 < 10 Cincinnati
11 < 14 New Mexico
12 < 19 Saint Joseph's
13 < 11 Xavier
14 < 13 Clemson ACC
15 < 12 Arizona Pac-10
16 < 17 Charleston
17 < 24 Georgia SEC
18 < 16 Iowa State Big 12
19 < 15 Illinois Big Ten
20 < 21 Villanova
21 < 23 Stanford Pac-10
22 < 22 Maryland ACC
23 < NR Boston College Big East
24 < 18 Colorado Big 12
25 < 20 Louisville

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.