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1949 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 Kentucky SEC
2 < 2 Oklahoma State Missouri Valley
3 < 3 Saint Louis
4 < 4 Illinois Big Ten
5 < 6 Western Kentucky
6 < 5 Minnesota Big Ten
7 < 10 Bradley
8 < 8 San Francisco
9 < 7 Tulane
10 < 9 Bowling Green
11 < 18 Yale Ivy
12 < 13 Utah
13 < 15 NC State
14 < 17 Villanova
15 < NR UCLA
16 < 14 Loyola Chicago
17 < 12 Wyoming
18 < 11 Butler
19 < 16 Hamline
20 < 19 Ohio State Big Ten

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.