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1972 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 UCLA Pac-8
2 < 3 North Carolina ACC
3 < 2 Penn Ivy
4 < 4 Louisville
5 < 5 Long Beach State
6 < 6 South Carolina
7 < 7 Marquette
8 < 9 Louisiana
9 < 8 BYU
10 < 14 Florida State Independent
11 < 16 Minnesota Big Ten
12 < 10 Marshall
13 < 11 Memphis
14 < 13 Maryland ACC
15 < NR Villanova
16 < 17 Oral Roberts
17 < 20 Indiana Big Ten
18 < NR Kentucky SEC
19 < NR Ohio State Big Ten
20 < 15 Virginia ACC

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.